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- Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: Where next for the IAC?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17011
Re: Where next for the IAC?
What a great chain this post has turned out to be. It could almost be copied verbatim and given 3 pages in FVM. In fact I wonder how many readers of FVM have read this forum post? I bet about 10 tops.
- Tue May 09, 2023 2:04 pm
- Forum: Film Comments - a moderated forum
- Topic: 50 plus year old film !
- Replies: 10
- Views: 28518
Re: 50 plus year old film !
Albert - is that a transfer from 16mm? Looks very good to me.
- Tue May 09, 2023 1:59 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 33498
Re: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
The colour system of film grading does indeed have its merits, but wasn't it superseded by the Star awards to enable our judges to have a greater range of categories in which to place a film? There's also the mythical contestant who flew in from a far off and distant land expecting to receive the br...
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 1:11 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 33498
Re: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
John Simpson and Michael Slowe make good points about seeing films on the big screen at the cinema, but I've long made the observation that most of the modern multiplex presentations are awful. Far too many 'safety' exit lights on. Centre stairwell LEDs all reflecting in the screen. Projectors not f...
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 12:55 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: 16mm sound film transfer
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10363
Re: 16mm sound film transfer
Albert - did you get the 16mm digitised? Happy? Where?
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 12:51 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: 35mm slide scanners
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5847
Re: 35mm slide scanners
I agree, the cheepie slide/neg scanners are so so, and best ignored. With a little care and a little light table a smartphone can do a pretty good job, as my Positive Image article on the subject pointed out. Alternatively I know a man who does this work to a very high standard, and funnily enough h...
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 12:44 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: YouTube cut my video short
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8177
Re: YouTube cut my video short
Did that help you Jill? Have you managed to upload the 1 hr version?
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 12:36 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 33498
Re: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
Strangely enough, being a BIAFF judge for many a year, I thought my 2015 film 'Susanna' wasn't really worthy of the 4*s it was given. I was pleased to get 4*s of course, but it did make me think there's room for a + and - system to be put in place. In other words your film can get 3*-, 3*, 3*+, 4*-,...
- Fri Jan 13, 2023 5:20 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: FVM - Feb 23 Issue
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9284
Re: FVM - Feb 23 Issue
I do hope the printers admit their fault, refund the IAC for their errors, and more importantly do some checks before they run off the next batch of FVMs. I know the images I supplied for Positive Image were all printed darker than they should've been.
- Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:51 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: PANASONIC LUMIX GH 4
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11660
Re: PANASONIC LUMIX GH 4
I'm tempted to ask why go to all the bother of using an anamorphic, Pq? OK, it does give a certain 'look' to images, especially those that contain point sources of light, but on the other hand it does introduce its own selection of compromises, some of which degrade the image technically. Why not si...
- Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:43 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: 16mm sound film transfer
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10363
Re: 16mm sound film transfer
Sorry, I can't help. I have no personal experience of having 16mm film transfers done, and without that I can't recommend anyone.
- Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:39 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Filming with an iphone
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15785
Re: Filming with an iphone
To come back to your original question John, all the latest smartphones use a combination of optical image stabilisation (where the lens assembly vibrates 'out of phase' to counteract the camera person's vibrations), along with digital smoothing as a clean-up operation. This real-time processing doe...
- Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:15 am
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: FVM October 2022 issue
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22101
Re: FVM October 2022 issue
The good news is that the December issue of FVM is even better, and in almost all respects. The mag was even difficult to get out of its paper envelope it was so well sealed up. So much so that's it's left a bit of a sticky residue on the front cover. That cover photo made me groan a bit, but then a...
- Wed Nov 16, 2022 8:25 am
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: AGM 2022 - what should we aim for?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10570
Re: AGM 2022 - what should we aim for?
And it turned out to be an excellent Zoom gathering. Half an hour of AGM formalities, then another 90 minutes of any other business, when all sorts of interesting topics came to light.
- Tue Apr 26, 2022 5:25 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: BIAFF 2022
- Replies: 77
- Views: 87340
Re: BIAFF 2022
Thirst is just one possible future, isn't it? I liked the way we were drip-fed information about the post-apocalyptic world humans find themselves in. This bleak visualisation is reinforced by the silences, the grey days, the wind, the deserted landscapes, the tattered clothes and sudden outbursts o...