Recent content by Anamorphic

The focal lenght would be different, so the lenses transfer of the image would need to be adjusted. But that would only be secondary to the fact there would be incompatible circuitry in the camera's processing. You have more sensors on bigger chips, you need more inputs on the camera's...

Yeah, but the bank is doing this for pure profit (don't tell me a banker goes to work everyday to be nice and help people get cars and houses and such - they're in it for the interest and penalty fees). Festivals should be to bring movies to people who want to see movies. Period. There is some...

These guys could very well be legit, but charging more than the face value of a check for a returned check charge - for a festival entry - is just disturbing to my indy "zen." It's not like any of us have a producer who can make a phone call and fill our petty cash drawers or boost our...

$40 fee for returned checks?? Why not just throw the application out. Sounds like a scam to make money of someone down on their luck.

Steve, You might be able to find an adaptor that will fit the larger canon filters to the smaller S8 lenses. As long as they're bigger filters going to a smaller lens, it's not a problem. There is a usable range of adapters though, since they end up putting too much air between the glass and...

I'm still aware of the techniques with the initial viewing, but I do my best to put them aside and watch the story. Since as it was said, it is about the story... I'm not losing any sleep over any of this. Lucas can do whatever he wants, I'm not standing outside ILM with a picket sign, nor...

Lucas is intent on completely eliminating private ownership and even film distribution of the products though. He want's theatres to run satelite transmitted feeds from his secure server to make sure no one is undercutting his take. He claims its to prevent piracy in the eastern countries, but...

That would require an original thought (again). I haven't seen episode 2 and I won't be looking forward to 3 either. Saw 1 because we had to in a class. I lost faith in him when I saw jabba's tail get stepped on. Stop fucking with my childhood George!

Back in the early 90's, when I was in college, I had a buddy who had a radio show on the campus station (we're talking about not enough power to get more than 2 miles out from the tower). He went to local department stores and asked for prizes - they'd give him $200 in gift certificates on the...

Vegas, prizes are typically comps from the manufacturers. You'd want to pick up a local (or national) film/video store like B&H to sponsor the show. They'd pay for their name being on the show (mentioned and a sign or something) and then provide some cool kit to give away. Pay for play is...

My thoughts exactly Steve. America's funniest home videos never charged submissions. Then again, they got cancelled after having no money for a decent host or format... :) Weren't they also on UPN? (just kidding vegas)

"I just think if you had to choice between manual exposure and manual white balance, exposure control wins." Even the cheapest Canon's have both (old zr40's do), so I would actually question someones judgement for buying a cam lacking one or the other. I think that's what I was getting at. :)...

PAL already uses (has always used) 4:2:0 color sampling. It actually works out to be more desirable than our 4:1:1 (I'll let you look up why, because I don't have time to type it all out - Adam W's 24p.com should spell it out). Granted 4:2:2 is much better, but I don't think it's the achilies...

Hard drives, and optical drives for that matter, are far less forgiving to shock than tape. Panasonic's RAM based storage is a great solution, but still a pretty penny to outfit a rig with any reasonable amount of storage. Since HDV is using the same 6mm tape format as DVCAM and miniDV, there...

I'm with ya on that. DV25 was better than cheap analog (has less noise than good analog) and is capable of much smaller form factors, but it still sucks compared to the other options. HDV has yet to impress me and I think it's still in its infancy, so there is hope for great strides in quality...