Hello Everyone,
This is my second post, but I wanted it to be my first. I'm sorta 'new' to filmmaking, I shot a few things in video back in the 1970s (when it was horrible to do so) and shot a little Super8 back in the 1980s. I was very much interested in filmmaking in those days but for a variety of reasons I did'nt persue it. Well strange things happen and now at 42 I found I've been bitten by the bug again. I had always wanted to shoot in 16mm, but back in the 1980s 16mm equipment was too cost prohibitive for me, and I am a 'buy it own it' kind of guy, I just did'nt have the nerve to rent equipment.
Anyway, I started seeing 16mm film equipment for sale at prices I could afford on ebay and for the past four or five years now I've been buying cameras and other equipment here and there building up my studio. But now that I've got most of the equipment that I need, I come here to see what other filmmakers are into and after a perusal of these threads I feel something between a dinosaur or maybe Rip Van Winkel. Here's what I'm going to start my production with in the spring of 2006:
FILMING: 16mm cameras; Bolex H-16s (I wound up with a bunch of 'em, but three I paln on using have been up-graded with Som-Berthiot zoom lenses with dogleg finders so at least I will have reflex viewing), a Mauer set up at 60Hz (Pilotone) for sync sound, and a Mitchell 16 (needs servicing probably won't see use in this up-coming project),
SOUND: Nagra set up at 7isp with Sennheiser microphones (one shotgun and one omni) with boom.
EDITING: I got several 16mm viewers, 4 and 6 gang syncronisers, squak boxes, rewinds with long spindles. The creame d'la creame a Moviola AH-77 six plate flatbed editing console (state of the art -- as I remember it anyway). Sound editing consists of a recorder and three deck mixer (make I cannot recall at the moment) that handles 16mm magnetic tape film (or magfilm).
WOW! I thought I was set up pretty decently, but I come here and everyone is talking about DV, HDTV, doing sound in DAT, editing on Avids, PCs, and even Ipods(!??) Am I behind the times or what?! What I need to know I guess is this--> Just how bad in trouble am I really?
I signed on here as Kin0pic, but now I wonder if "Jurassic Filmmaker" or even Rip Van Winkle might not have been a more appropriate handle. O, well I'm glad to be here anyway. Ya'll please excuse me when I post from time to time talking about all this old stuff. LOL!
Best regards!
kin0pic_studio
This is my second post, but I wanted it to be my first. I'm sorta 'new' to filmmaking, I shot a few things in video back in the 1970s (when it was horrible to do so) and shot a little Super8 back in the 1980s. I was very much interested in filmmaking in those days but for a variety of reasons I did'nt persue it. Well strange things happen and now at 42 I found I've been bitten by the bug again. I had always wanted to shoot in 16mm, but back in the 1980s 16mm equipment was too cost prohibitive for me, and I am a 'buy it own it' kind of guy, I just did'nt have the nerve to rent equipment.
Anyway, I started seeing 16mm film equipment for sale at prices I could afford on ebay and for the past four or five years now I've been buying cameras and other equipment here and there building up my studio. But now that I've got most of the equipment that I need, I come here to see what other filmmakers are into and after a perusal of these threads I feel something between a dinosaur or maybe Rip Van Winkel. Here's what I'm going to start my production with in the spring of 2006:
FILMING: 16mm cameras; Bolex H-16s (I wound up with a bunch of 'em, but three I paln on using have been up-graded with Som-Berthiot zoom lenses with dogleg finders so at least I will have reflex viewing), a Mauer set up at 60Hz (Pilotone) for sync sound, and a Mitchell 16 (needs servicing probably won't see use in this up-coming project),
SOUND: Nagra set up at 7isp with Sennheiser microphones (one shotgun and one omni) with boom.
EDITING: I got several 16mm viewers, 4 and 6 gang syncronisers, squak boxes, rewinds with long spindles. The creame d'la creame a Moviola AH-77 six plate flatbed editing console (state of the art -- as I remember it anyway). Sound editing consists of a recorder and three deck mixer (make I cannot recall at the moment) that handles 16mm magnetic tape film (or magfilm).
WOW! I thought I was set up pretty decently, but I come here and everyone is talking about DV, HDTV, doing sound in DAT, editing on Avids, PCs, and even Ipods(!??) Am I behind the times or what?! What I need to know I guess is this--> Just how bad in trouble am I really?
I signed on here as Kin0pic, but now I wonder if "Jurassic Filmmaker" or even Rip Van Winkle might not have been a more appropriate handle. O, well I'm glad to be here anyway. Ya'll please excuse me when I post from time to time talking about all this old stuff. LOL!
Best regards!
kin0pic_studio