Written on Apr, 21, 2026 by in

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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Written on Mar, 14, 2026 by in

      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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Written on Feb, 15, 2026 by in

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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Written on Feb, 15, 2026 by in

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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Written on Jan, 20, 2026 by in

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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Written on Jan, 16, 2026 by in

(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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Written on Oct, 29, 2025 by in

Happy with adjustments on getting even spread of light for 35mm, which maybe because of its size really shows hotspots and darker spots in 1:1 printing. With 16mm you dont need the diffuser. btw you get high quality diffuser sheets with minimal ND value inside flat screens, pc monitors. Take them apart and get the diffuser out, good stuff! The …

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Written on Oct, 27, 2025 by in