IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

On `Proper` widescreen cameras, they have a 16/9 CCD. On cheaper one`s they use a normal 4/3 ccd and electronicly cut out the top and bottom bands.

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Stingman

The same at Top to Bottom. But more screen from Side to Side. THAT`S THE POINT OF W I D E S C R E E N !

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Unless i`m missing something, has this camera worked on another computer. If not then it`s the camera. If you plug a camera into a firewire port and it`s turned on or the computer is turned on then you can easily fry one or both equipment. It must only be done with both turned off. I`ve plugged mine...

If you need a new firewire board for your computer then I think that they cost about £20.

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You may be right Dave. The most dramatic use of the zoom lens is in the following. I don`t know the correct name for this but............. You have a shot of someone, maybe just their face. You zoom in, but this is the clever bit, you walk backwards with the camera, at the same speed as you zoom int...

Winning, loseing. That is the question! We all sometimes think that the film we have just finnished is our best yet and deserves to come first! Sometimes we have lost the plot and really our film is rubbish. It happens to me quite alot. My first Documentry about our local cinema was first class. It ...

Willy. THAT`s what it IS ALL about. Doing something serious but having FUN. This is what makes us different form professional. They do it for a job and to get something out of it..... Money! WE do it for love and don`t get any money, or sometimes, very little. I thank you for telling us the backgrou...

When is an amateur not an amateur? That is the question! I have been videoing since 1987. In 1988, I got a bank loan to buy the Panasonic M10B (A full size VHS camera with Very good quality Stereo). It made me feel confident so I filmed Christian Youth events for my friend for £10. I also started to...

A good actress is worth six cameramen any day of the week. Discuss, I hope! ned c What the Actress said to the Bishop! but....... A good Actress NEEDS a cameraman, otherwise she`s just a normal person! A decent cameraman can make her look, Fat, Thin, Old, Young, Attractive, Ugly, Sinister, Pure and...

Dear Willy!! So, my comment to n-c film makers is stop making pale copies of what you see on TV and do something really original!! ned c I agree with you Ned c, but not 100% :shock: :lol: I would try to do something different but useing the style of what I see in films and on TV. England has the Be...

The biggest cost to us (other then the equipment) is editing! If we paid ourselves the minimum wage for each hour we soent editing a film then it would be really dear! I`m editing a jazz film that is almost two hours long. Adding effects and basic editing is taking almost an hour for two minutes of ...

I hope that it wasn`t anything in the water or badly cooked food

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Stingman

Sorry Dave I can get exasperated at times. I've even got a fever since the day I came back from Harrogate!! I'll be fine next week though. Being a Projectionist or Sound Mixer Man is a very challengeing job indeedee! I used to sweat and shake. I felt that I had been beaten up by a Boxer. I felt lik...

Brian Saberton wrote: Isn't it great to know that whatever the problem we can help each other out like this.

THATS what it`s all about. We don`t know each other but we WILL go out of the way to help each other.

It is GREAT.............

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Stingman

I think you are correct Ray. Also, some of us are still picking ourselves up after being kicked in the goolies :shock: :lol: :lol: ! I`ve made a few films in the last year, but non are of a quality that I would pay for to enter a competition. To some of us `That perfect Film` doesn`t come along much...