Heres the white card test showing how to hold it over the gate and then the view through the view finder that shows the image in the gate and how its edge lines relate to the reticle guide lines which are typically hard to see because the black surround renders them impossible to see. The vertical card visualises the horizontal …
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Set up for upcoming VI / motorhand / expanded noise projector dissassembly / projector as CV and signal source / apparatus / melting-burning shows – North Europe Tour 2026!!
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Bit of internegative or intermediate on 2234. The colour will be lost of course, as will the sound, but it is going to end up on 16mm with mutiple exposed layers, so who cares. The marks just tell me which frame to compare, the actual sequence is only a second long. This ineg is ND0, so close comparing of the …
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DUPE & interneg 2 day intensive workshop WHAT: Learn know how to copy positive 16mm material (reversal/slides/found footage) to 35mm interneg, then print back down to 16mm print stock. HOW: This is possible using an optical printer. Although the operation is straight forwards there are many auxiliary creative things you can do like multi screen, step changes, …
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YOUTUBE. Love it or hate it? Well, I’ve decided to try and make more use of it to document in a more useful way the stuff I am doing. I’ve been uploading very short, basic video clips of various processes and small things that occur when I am working to try and populate the channel with material. In the future …
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Amazing illustrated talk by John Knoll at ILM about making mattes from colour elements. Hope they dont mind me posting link here as its worth saving somehow.
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sometimes chance places perfectly the thing you placed mindfully in a flow of possibilities.
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Quick document of rostrum/roroscope camera set up. This adapted Oxberry camera, (presumably from an old rostrum camera) has had a new stepper motor added which is under digital programme control. It uses a Nikon F lens mount and I’m shooting lots with a Micro Nikkor Nikon F 60mm 2.8 lens. It is DUAL gauge and I have gates and sprocket …
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(still editing and formatting this post/page) Early on in the formation of the DIY film lab scene there was a meeting in Hamburg or possibly Hannover (sector 16) or somewhere else where I saw mentioned the idea of converting steenbecks or other flat bed edting tables into contact printers. Esther also mentioned this at WORM and a howto appears in …
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