Recent content by scubba

Hah, Northfork, I knew it. I was sure this was your favorite piece. It looks so distinguished and out of this world. I remember you explained somewhere hwo you achieved the look using pre flashing and some sort of by passing. But I cant recall how exactly it was made. Anyways, it is a great...

I agree with Derek altough a word of caution needs to be said about this 24p modus. as I heard when this mode is engaged you lose control over most of your manual settings which can be quite a bit annoying when you need to tweak the picture a little. Another decent choice would be the pd150...

just ordered another sekonic 398M today and I can say I still love it the most of all incidental/ ambient meters. along with the spotmeter F I think this is enough to get through most production needs. at least that's how I get along

?? does that make sense? when the shutter is closed the mirrored side of the shutter should cause the light to strike the cam of the video assist and thus show an image. but in this case it does not therefore it might be possible that the cam is actually not in the pathway of the eyepiece but...

I know I am a bit late for this one but better late than never I had a job where I had to handle black skin and caucasian skin people in one shot for a musicvideo. and the way I read my meter is that I tend to use the black skin 1 to 1 1/2 stop under. as the black skin reflects a lot less light...

...ups, yeah, of course overexposing the reversal stock will render it less dense. I tangled myself up in my own words.... :wink:

as for fthe lens: if you want to crush your depth of field and still be able to stop down the lens far enough in order not to use too many NDs you will need to shoot with a rather long lens which will render handheld shots rather impossible, impossible to look at. the framing might be allover...

what is the look you are going for? What is the contrast you want the scene to have? do you mind the sand blowing out? do you mind the face to sink into darkness? first you need to set your exposure in your mind. I would recommend to have the face at key. you dont want to face direct sun, or you...

get the sekonic studio deluxe. it is cheap, easy to use and extremely rugged and reliable. just make sure they are not out of scale. do so with a given lamp that you know the ouput for sure and measure the footcandles incidental light. I know, this is not very reliable but good enough to know if...

this is true, glass NDs however should cut down the color ratios equally therefore not affecting the color saturation at all and only minimising the light levels according to their strengths (3/6/9). however on some lenses, as i heard from colleagues, especially video lenses that have been made...

northfork northfork hey kevin, did david really use bleachbypass in this one? I thought that beside the choice of stock he mainly achieved this look with flashing the film prior to exposure (some kind of arriflash inside the camera that flashes the film before it passes the gate), therefore...