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Monday, April 23rd, 2007What?! You’ve never heard of the Ultra16 film format?!
Don’t feel bad, it’s definitely not the most prominent 16mm shooting format out there. Think of it as a kind of a mix between standard 16mm and Super-16 film, but the explanation is a whole lot more technical. When using Ultra-16 and blowing the film up to [...]
What Are 35mm, 16mm, & Super 8mm Films?
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007Since video has been so prominent in filmmaking lately, many new filmmakers don’t get the exposure to film that they used to and often don’t know the differences in these three film formats anymore - and why they are used in the particular areas they are. Many new filmmakers want to shoot with film, because [...]
Frederick, Westminster, & Mount Airy for Film Makers
Monday, March 19th, 2007It’s a slow news week, so I figured I’d take a few minutes to write about three of the best kept filming secrets of Maryland.
Frederick, MD is the second largest city in the state and the capital of Frederick County (which happens to be the largest county in Maryland). Located 1 hour west from Baltimore [...]
From Russia, with Love
Friday, October 6th, 2006Seems like some interesting work has been going on over to Kinor.
It appears they are not only building 2K cameras, but now 4K cameras! To top it off, they are also buying back old Kinors - Something sounds really good here.
Their pics show the Digital Kinor’s side-by-side with
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Shooting Model Trains or Other Miniatures?
Thursday, October 5th, 2006Shooting a model train? Which kind? There’s O at 1:48 scale, S at 1:64 scale, OO at 1:75 scale, HO at 1:86 scale, and TT at 1:120 scale (hint: the bigger the better for shooting film).
Doing the math for standard 24fps and for a 1/48 scale model, the camera speed increases by a factor of [...]
Shooting in HD versus 16mm
Saturday, September 16th, 2006High Definition is definitely the new rage. But shooting HD versus 16mm?
In our business, we’ve found a majority of the people that originally wanted us to use 16mm were really just wanting something better than Standard Definition, but felt the price of 35mm wasn’t in their budget. When we started offering HD, the people interested [...]