[Konvas] another lens question

[H. W. Stone]

 Note what I "bolded" below--? what shows up "the same" on the monitors of last year looks different on today's monitors-- and different yet on the big screen.

What looked perfectly fine on a 20" Sony Studio Master looked horrible on a 38" RCA e2k monitor-- which is why they had me going through footage to see what could be salvaged from "it looked fine on our gear THEN" shooting.

The weak link is the way you see it, and the signal and monitor may be an ouch factor.


 


 

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From: fauxfilm at aol.com
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Sent: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 5:14 pm
Subject: Re: [Konvas] another lens question











>>Can they even cut together?



It probably depends on the intended usage.?? I haven't tried it?for the big screen (I live in a small screen world).... but I have cut film and digital together for the boob tube.



We had a scene in a commercial that was in an eye surgeon's operating room.?? About six months later they needed to update the commercial... I can't remember why... either some personnel had changed, or a piece of equipment was no longer used... I don't remember exactly.? But we realized that the master shot was still fine and good, but a couple of the closeups needed to be replaced.? The original shoot was on 35mm film, via my trusty Konvas 7M and LOMO primes.?? They didn't want to spend "film money" on what they hoped would be a cheap fix on an old spot, so we reshot a couple of closeups digital with Canon XLH1 with P+S Technik converter and Leitz primes.



After tweaking for a color match, they intercut perfectly.? NO ONE could tell which was which, not even the colorist at the film lab, and he's a DaVinci master who?watches big-budget hotshot footage all day.? You probably would have been able see the difference on the silver screen, but sure couldn't on a television monitor.



Conversely, I once tried the same thing, but this time intercutting digital (same camera setup) with 16mm... with no decent success at all.? The digital footage simply looked too good.? I was not able to trash and grain it up enough to match the 16mm without it taking on an artifical manipulated look.



T2



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