Analog film photography and cameras

After a year of only doing Hi Def and 3D jobs i finally got to do some 35mm work last week on a feature. I know its not stills but i had forgotten how elegant the classic panaflex, 11:1 zoom and 1000' mag combo is. Always reminds me how it should be done....

After a year of only doing Hi Def and 3D jobs i finally got to do some 35mm work last week on a feature. I know its not stills but i had forgotten how elegant the classic panaflex, 11:1 zoom and 1000' mag combo is. Always reminds me how it should be done....

That's a monster, does it come with a handlebar mount ;)

Thats massiveo! I dont have much experience film(moving). But i did get my hands on one of them bolex's a couple of months ago and they are heavy enough for me. But a joy to use never the less. It just a massive hasselblad to be honest.

Heres some digital street stuff i did in Berlin last year.
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Was bored one day a cleaning both my k1000 and just looking around for pentax lens and i found an image of black k1000
Blacked out pentax k1000. http://www.flickr.com/photos/72013874@N00/438989229/

I thought it looked lovely so got out my black electrical and heres the results.

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I can still see silver bits ;)

That panAflex is a gorgeous piece of engineering, remember watching a docu on the early days of film equip as kit became more compact, amazing the solutions that were conjured up to solve all the issues they had.
Personally I'd be happy to just hear a medium format imax camera in motion :D

leave it out brickman haha my black tape was running rather low, i got far to carried away to stop and look at my supply. That would be pretty darn cool.

lol, thought about doing a stealth camera before (rough looking ME super) but never got around to it/ didn't have the heart.
I've touched up camera buttons, bike parts & lenses (from where they get scraped on the end) with this magic stuff. >>>> Rustins matt black wrought iron paint.

About £5 a small tin, and I normally loose them in the clutter before they run out :D

After a year of only doing Hi Def and 3D jobs i finally got to do some 35mm work last week on a feature. I know its not stills but i had forgotten how elegant the classic panaflex, 11:1 zoom and 1000' mag combo is. Always reminds me how it should be done....

Arri and Panavision have not made made film cameras for about a year, the deluxe merge with soho film lab has seen analogue ditched. i know a DOP who owns various mitchell/arri cameras and primes that sit there unused while the Alexa is out every day.

time marches on.

Hmm, the FM I bought on Ebay has started acting strange. The first roll went through fine but toward the end of the second roll it was winding on but wouldn't take a picture. The shutter button depresses but doesn't do anything, like it still needs winding on.

Fm might be one that uses a cog and the film advancing to cock the shutter, so check film holes aren't all rucked up (after dev).
Otherwise might be lack of use and its in need of a but of cleaning/ de gunking (old grease does one of two things, either turns into lock tight and seizes OR turns into really thin gun oil and runs out (then gardens again in important places).
Or does it take a battery? Might be enough juice to run meter but not shutter.

Thanks. It seems to be OK without film, I'll have to see what happens on the next roll.

I'm having a nightmare with my equipment at the minute though, I cracked the threaded part of my 50mm today.

So clumsy

Arri and Panavision have not made made film cameras for about a year, the deluxe merge with soho film lab has seen analogue ditched. i know a DOP who owns various mitchell/arri cameras and primes that sit there unused while the Alexa is out every day.

time marches on.

Deluxe bought out soho film lab last year. They are still a film lab not digital and are still going strong. They do most of the TV and commercials work. Technicolor do the big feature film work. There are any number of film jobs going at the moment and there has been a swing away from digital on major features if it is not shooting 3D. I was in Panavision just last week and 90% of their film cameras are in use at the moment.

The Alexa is a camera. You should look it up, it still requires a lens on the front so your point about your DP friend having primes he cannot use seems pretty daft. Plus who has used a mitchell in the last 20 years any way, great cameras but only really useful as crash cams these days.

You may have a DSLR that shoots video but that does not mean you know what you are talking about. Stick to what you know.....

been on plenty of shoots both film (though no film recently)and digital and sat in on grades and edits a very good friend is head of digital services at Deluxe (soho film lab) so something that i have had conversations about not a scoblefact i read on the internet somewhere.
film is now done out in middlesex. basically film was moved to one site after the merger and people lost there jobs.
fair comment on the primes but the mitchels although a relic to some they were in use a few days a week up until recently. as for 'who' all i'll say is a DOP with his own kit who has done features and a lot of ad work both here and abroad.

Edit: a quick google shows 3 places in london to hire a Mitchell s35R so still a need for them (however small)

link to article about no film cameras manufactured by Panaflex and only to order by arri
http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/film-fading-to-black

Thinking about selling my Voigtlander Bessa R as I don't really use it anymore... Comes with a Colour Skopar 35mm F2.5 MC lens, Voigtlander side grip, MiniSoftRelease and Voigtlander plastic case/strap...

Any idea what I could fetch for it? Ballpark, I'm clueless about these kinds of things...

faints

I'll put some piccies up, Mike... ;]

I'm already getting my swoon on in Google images. I don't need your jazzy pics! :)

R or R2/3/4?

Apologies for the vignette/sepia effect, I couldn't help myself...
#photoshopjunkie

^ adds to pr0n folder

ah bummer, i'm after an r2m/3. You shouldn't have any troubles selling that though, there haven't been as many on the bay as normal lately

well nice.

+1 for ebay. they love them on there. If you can get someone in London to pick up pay cash then you only have the ebay fee, not the paypal fee too (and then the agonizing wait for the money to be shipped over to you by intoxicated snails).

I don't really wanna sell it but I'm totally digital now... Film pisses me off these days...

........I'm totally digital now......

So you would like us to think, but some of us have seen you in real life. Digital my arse. You are real like most of the rest of us. No flies on me mate.