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For indoors, condensers shot gun mics as you mention are not really suited. The narrow angle of reception of those hyper o super-cardioide microphone can be a problem as they can capt for example, some "distortionated" room-tone or un-wanted sound reflection from the walls... However cardi...

Hello, welcome to this forum... Concerning audio here is a reference of mid-priced (around USD 350) shot-gun microphone : Rode NTG 1 http://www.locationsound.com/proaudio/ls/SROD0001.html Audio-Technica - AT897 http://www.locationsound.com/proaudio/ls/SAUT0060.html Audio-Technica - AT835B http://www...

a traditional 35mm print will have around 1K when finally projected, because it has to go through several generations of IP/IN.. I believe the resolution is highier than that on a print : around 1.8K to 1.4K is what I remember reading from other sources. However if 2K and 4K DCI digital projection ...

In fact, all of this is "old news" as this was announced on American Cinematographer (Sept 2006) a few months ago... http://www.ascmag.com/new_products/September2006/index.php#prod172 But concerning Phantom 65 camera, I think that their 4K approach (as stated by Vision Research an image si...

Hello Scot, I understand that you don't believe that this information to be true. Sincerely I also thought that we would not see a high speed digital camera with 1920x1080 frame for a long time.... You said that you would prefer to shoot on Super-16mm, well I agree with you, one just have to see the...

Hello Scot, It's a joke or a scam. 2048 x 2048 at 42 bit colour at 1000 frames per seconds BA HA HA HA! Scot I haven't tested the cameras, but it do not seem to be at all a joke or a scam, as the cameras are beiing proposed by Abel CineTech, that is a serious rental/sell/service house in the USA. As...

Hello, I have found some information concerning what seems to be interesting digital cinematography camera devices : PHANTOM 65 4096 x 2440 @ 125 frames-per-second (fps) The world's first medium-format digital cinema camera. Key Features * 4K (4096 x 2440) resolution * Up to 125 frames-per-second (f...

Hello, I think you may find information here : http://homepage.mac.com/onsuper8/shoot.html Or may be one of those companies can help you with more information about super-8 camera rental or repair in Berlin area. http://www.andecfilm.de/html/start_english.htm http://www.englisch.film-super8.de/ http...

good luck! glad to hear from you again.
daniel

Megacolor Laboratory at Sao Paulo, Brasil, is a very good and clean place to process super-8mm (ECN-2 only) They also process 16mm and 35mm formats. They do pass super-8 film through Ultrasonic cleaning device after processing. current webpage where service is described : http://chilefilms.cl/brasi...

Hello, The web-version must be delayed for 6 months (may be a bit less) in order to preserve possibilities of applying to some 2007 film festivals. Anyway a small website-project will be created and available by third week of March, where it will be possible to download technical information about t...

Hello, This is from a message I read in this website 4 years ago, but I can't found the direct link now, only my archive : andy Guest Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 12:20 pm Post subject: BBC telecine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi, found this,it may be of inte...

Distribution will be delayed until February (for web preview) and March for 35mm. Here is a new link with "01" 50 Daylight color negative with Moviflex camera. Aside from that shot all the rest of the footage was shot with the Pro8 Classic camera (ex-Beaulieu). http://www.fotolog.com/dhisu...

a bit off topic, but as far as I know the best videotape format is still D6 Voodoo , a joint venture between Toshiba and Philips.

... Pro8mm back in 2001 did custom load for me different photographic film stocks, including EPP (Ektachrome 100D). I believe that other super-8 users may have also done similar experience several years ago. I did develop those super-8 EPP on Tetenal E6 (3 steps + stabilizer) chemicals kit with Lomo...