Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Standard mag load for the Panavision Panaflex is 1000' - 90 feet per minute so one gets just over 11 minutes per load. Mutiple cameras going are stagger starts so not all down at the same time, shoot clock placed in scene to give a "synch" reference. I know, as I was one of the camera loaders for that shoot. If I recall correctly, there were 8 cameras going for the performance and the jam was later - I was not the loader for the pick up jam. Jay Ignaszewski -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bonvini=optonline.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bonvini=optonline.net@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of grduprey@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 2:48 PM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: 35mm film cameras The reason I brought this up is, At the end of the film Last Waltz by Martin Scorsese, during the Jam session, the film abruptly stops and there is a written notice that 35 mm cameras are not built to run for the periods they were used to film the jam session which was around 6 hrs. I'm sure they had to stop and change film and so they were off during the film changes. Anybody have any insight to this? Gene -----Original Message----- From: Feli <feli2@earthlink.net> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:47:33 -0700 Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: 35mm film cameras On Apr 23, 2005, at 7:12 AM, Grduprey@aol.com wrote: > This is for our movie film industry people. I heard the other day > that 35mm > movie cameras are not made for doing long filming sequences and over > heat > rather quickly. Is this true? If so, does this mean that you go > through several > cameras over the filming of a movie film? > > Gene Not true. You can easily run 1000 ft of 35mm film (about 9-10 minutes) through a camera at normal frame rates. (0-120fps) Older cameras like the Mitchell need a few drops of lubrication every 10,000 ft or so, but that is just to avoid wear and tear. My Mitchell-NCR is 70 years old and still runs like a charm. Ultra-high speed cameras like a Photo Sonics can shoot up 360 fps. An example of their use would be some of the ultra-slowmotion shots in the Matrix films. I haven't dealt with these personally, and I would guess that the transport movement is kept well lubricated. But I have never heard of a heat problem. Feli ________________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information