[Konvas] buying a 2-perf camera. finally! or renting one for the moment

[XiaoSu Han]

hi freya, thanks for all the informations

we just shot a test of our material here since it's quite old short
ends, recans and not used stuff from "beaufort" actually
so that was why it was 150ft only :)

we got the quote for 6x400ft rolls, that was fine but very expensive as said...

probably we won't have a film print at the end, but it's good to have
the 4perf for that if necessary!

yeah, it's all night, we've worked on lots of night shoots already
with our letus35extreme, it's only a 35mm adapter of course, but
still... we had to lit for iso 100 etc.
we also have experience on 16mm night shooting, so that's going to
come handy i guess, we are still looking for a good 1st ac in hong
kong, that would be very good as well :)

we are shooting all interiors mostly, a few shots out of the car
perhaps in hk urban area using all those lights :) excited about that
already

we will take this challenge because the directors definately want to
go with 35mm as well, and we've not have had the opportunity for that
yet... we gotta use this chance

thanks for all the input, it's like film school a bit now! just kidding

regards from vienna, xax

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Freya <freya128 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> we ask stuff at the lab, but only get to people who
>> don't know what
>> they are doing, writing 150m three times although we told
>> them that we
>> want to develop and telecine 150ft of material
>
> 150ft? Is there a 0 missing there somewhere? This is something a little over 1 minute of footage! Maybe 2!
>
> This could be a problem. Most telecine places I have come across have a half hour minimum charge.
>
> In addition my local lab also has a minimum charge on development which comes to something like a 400ft roll. Are you planning to make a tiny, tiny short and to edit in camera perhaps?
>
>> what is the difference between a HD telecine and the DI
>> route?
>> isn't DI just 2k telecine (isn't 2K HD?) ->
>> color correction -> print
>> positive on film, am i missing something?
>> why is the HD telecine cheaper than a DI then?
>
> Well for starters with HD you don't make a print at all so that is a massive cost saving. Also even 2k DI is usually done on specialised and expensive scanners instead of the normal telecine machines, tho there are now a few telecine machines capable of 2k resolution. There are of course 4k and 8k DI's which are super super expensive. Theres a massive saving by not making a print at all tho.
>
> This is a big advantage of 4 perf or Anamorphic as both of them are projectable formats and you can make a contact print of the film avoiding a film out. This saves a massive amount of money compared to a DI when making a print.
>
>> we probably won't shoot anamorphic since the lenses are
>> too slow and
>> the script is completely in the night.
>
> eeeek! A night time script is a bit scary for your first time out. I can see now why 16mm might not be a great option either. I guess you want super speeds and a really amazing focus puller!
>
> That's a little scary. Is it all night exteriors too?
>
> Maybe you should come up with a simpler script and save this one for down the line when you have everything worked out more.
>
> love
>
> Freya
>
>
>
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