shutterless clips

[Rick Palidwor]

Finally figured out how to upload video clips, I hope. Here is my first effort:

ftp://ftp.filmshooting.com/upload/video ... teclip.mov

This is an excerpt from a music video I made for Gesundheit, shot with a shutterless Nikon 8X Super Zoom at 18fps.

Rick

[steve hyde]

Rick,

The look is perfect for the band!!! It was like a 20 second trip to hell

Very cool.

Steve

[Rick Palidwor]

Here's another clip from the same band - same camera, but Mitch shot these bits.

ftp://ftp.filmshooting.com/upload/video ... gsclip.mov

If the band interests you, here is there site: http://www.gesundheit.ca

Rick

[downix]

Good work. Ektachrome I take it?

[Rick Palidwor]

Good work. Ektachrome I take it?

1st clip, "chuteclip" is Ektahrome. 2nd "offerngsclip" is tri-x

Rick

[Rick Palidwor]

Another clip of cars and street lights at night, and a red traffic light.

ftp://ftp.filmshooting.com/upload/video ... htclip.mov

Rick

[Rick Palidwor]

These are some candles. I love the quality of the light. Pause the clip here and there to get a close look.

ftp://ftp.filmshooting.com/upload/video ... esclip.mov

Rick

[Rick Palidwor]

I forgot to add that the candles and cars were shot a t 12 fps
Rick

[lunni]

Wow, awesome clips! Gotta rip of the shutter from one of my cameras too..

../henri

[sunrise]

I like it very much.

Do you have any pics of the camera and the process of removing the shutter?

michael

[Mitch Perkins]

I like it very much.

Do you have any pics of the camera and the process of removing the shutter?

michael

http://super8wiki.com

No pics, maybe we'll try to post some.

Mitch

[audadvnc]

Good examples of non-naturalistic S8 shooting. How did Mitch get color tints to the Tri-X? In-camera during transfer to video or on the computer?

[Mitch Perkins]

Good examples of non-naturalistic S8 shooting. How did Mitch get color tints to the Tri-X? In-camera during transfer to video or on the computer?

Thanks for the kind words.

I haven't the patience to wait for the clip to upload, but if there
is colour in B+W footage, it is the result of the colour temp. of the projector bulb during transfer.
Under-exposed film requires a hotter bulb, which looks blue. Over-exposure requires dimming of the bulb, and results in a more sepia look.
These issues can be eliminated *within reasonable parameters* simply by hitting the white balance on the DV cam for individual film clips. The DV cam I'm currently using has a B+W option which desaturates the film real-time during capture. Nice!
If the clip in question is sepia, it's because the white balance of the DV cam could not take any more "orangeness" out of an image that required a 100% dimmed down bulb.

Regards,
Mitch

[sonickel]

Lovely. Thanks for posting these.

I particularly liked the ones where the light wasn't so harsh (ie on the hardcore metal singer), where you could make out the human form, and the streaking was more subtle in quality.

What sort of light would lead to subtle streaking effects? (ie what difference in fstop between darkness and filmed people/objects?

Also a step by step guide to making one's camera shutterless would be really cool.

[audadvnc]

Still on color tints - I'm suddenly intrigued by the possibilities of adding color to b&w shots during the transfer step, as apparently happened by accident in the "offerngsclip" video. On my computer the image has magenta and bluish areas that seem to vary in size and intensity during the program.

Rather than desaturating, we can add color to sections by varying video white balance, color temperature, projector lamp voltage, lens filtering, screen color, etc. Or videotape the S8 film projected on the bare chest of the singer. Even break out the Sharpies and tint the film itself - just like "Birth of a Nation". I wonder if felt pen ink, thinned oil paints or watercolors would gum up the mechanism? What did the oldtimers use to tint their films?