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Chris Gavin
Junior
Posts: 4
From: London, UK
Registered: Sep 2013

posted October 18, 2013 06:13 PM

Dear all, Here's 'Cable Car' a new super 8 short film I shot on Argenti B&W negative super 8 negative film.

The film was home processed (as you can probably see [Wink]

and digitized on a home-made telecine device.

You can see the film on my blog here...
http://www.chrisgavin.com/2013/10/cable-car-new-super8-film.html

Or read a little bit more about the digitizing process here..
http://www.chrisgavin.com/2013/10/another-diy-film-scanner.html

Hope you enjoy the film, any comments welcome,
many thanks for taking a look.
Chris

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Janice Glesser
Film Goddess

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From: Sunnyvale, CA USA
Registered: Sep 2011

posted October 18, 2013 06:24 PM

Lovely Chris .... I enjoyed your film very much. Even though the subject matter was more modern...it had the look and feel of old films from the 20's. Nice work!

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Dominique De Bast
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013

posted October 19, 2013 01:04 AM

Congratulations !

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Dominique

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Jean-Marc Toussaint
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From: France
Registered: Oct 2004

posted October 19, 2013 11:38 AM

Very nice job, Chris.

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Jean-Christophe Deblock
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From: Grimbergen, Brabant, Belgium.
Registered: Mar 2007

posted October 19, 2013 11:54 AM

Great job. Well done.

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted October 19, 2013 12:38 PM

Chris ...

Does this require a special camera? I ask as that aspect ratio is of course, wider than the standard 8mm or super 8 ratio! I was certainly intrigues and thank you for posting.

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Chris Gavin
Junior
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From: London, UK
Registered: Sep 2013

posted October 19, 2013 01:13 PM

Many thanks for the responses, really encouraging...

Osi, thanks for the question. this was shot with a normal Nizo 156XL super 8 camera, but I used a Panasonic LA7200 anamorphic adaptor lens on the front of it. This lens was designed to give 16x9 ratio for old Panasonic camcorders with 4x3 sensors, so it enables a 1.33X stretch to the normal super 8 ratio.
In the editing/post stage I stretch the pictures by %133 (in the x-axis) to give the correct ratio i.e. 16x9 images.
I also chose a really widescreen (2.35:1) ratio for the whole project, then used the 16x9 footage at various sizes within this overall framing.
Hope this makes sense.

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Pasquale DAlessio
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