Filmshooting

This is really cool, David. Congratulations!

Tim

cameratech wrote:...the mythical Adastra series by Meopta...

Right on, thanks for the info.

Stumbled upon this very informative history website for others that might be interested:

http://www.meopta-history.com/

Check out "The Meopta Story."

Tim

Hey cameratech , what is that cam in your avatar pic? Pretty cool looking. On topic, I've actually given a number of dead cameras to friends who just wanted one to put on their shelf for display. I have many of my own out and when they admire them I ask if they want a non-working one. A couple of pe...

A sad but interesting read that seems relevant to several of the discussions currently going on here:

"Studios Put 35mm Prints on the Endangered-Species List"

http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=8384

Tim

Ah, I see what you're getting at. The digital analogy in the binary "image/dark" alternation. Interesting, and I do understand what you're saying about Tarantino's assertions. Still, the "magic" remains mysterious, as I think you'd agree.

Tim

Perhaps what is more disconcerting is not the built-in obsolescence of digital hardware but the fragility of the information acquired through electronic/digital means. There is a kind of backdraft from the hardware, where the corresponding fragility of the information becomes inverted: where the in...

...however the magic (which occurs in the brain), is the same magic (same brain) whether the medium is film or digital. The brain infers (sees) movement where there is no movement - nothing but a succession of otherwise still images (be they film images or digital ones). Not even going into the oth...

He's referring to what happens as we process projected film information vs. projected digital information. The magic that he is referring to occurs in your body and in your brain.

Tim

sciolist wrote:Here's a glimpse of my ever expanding collection of cinematographic equipment - http://www.flickr.com/photos/eoorider/s ... 522447949/ - some of which I actually put to practical use.

Damn dude, that is an amazing collection--worthy of an exhibition. Totally envious.

Tim

It is grading, or color grading.

Wikipedia (cached due to blackout today):

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... clnk&gl=us

Tim

Latest:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 0-12-29-37

Analysis:

http://money.msn.com/investing/latest.a ... 0df23e6dda

Still not great, but better news.

Tim

Soon we/they will be eating Soylent Green... Lol. A better Heston-dystopian film reference might be The Omega Man , e.g. Neville's sad reminiscing while watching Woodstock in an empty theater, or the Family's hatred of technology: "One creature, caught. Nothing to live with but his gadgets, hi...

People simply don't use photography that way anymore... There was a radio story this past weekend on our local 89.3 KPPC profiling some young artist who is doing a film diary project where he takes a photo a day for an entire year. Nothing new there, but his idea was that after each roll of film wa...

While I absolutely loved Tree of Life and in fact think it is the second best film of the year, the Best Picture nod should definitely go to Hugo . And coming from someone who really despises 3D as I do, I have to say that here it goes way beyond gimmick and is actually part of the essential meaning...

What he said.

Tim