Shooting with 35mm film off My Computer Screen

nbknas

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Ok this will sound pretty crazy.

Let's say you have one hell of a high quality computer screen. the resolution is immense and such.

And I were to do an animated film, puppets and shoot with with a high digital still camera. so the resolution is huge alone. I would set everything up frame by frame. All well photoshopped and what not. So the animation on screen looks fantastic.

And the picture looks amazing because it's high resolution. Usually when you convert it to the television, you lose a LOT of the quality due to the color difference.


But if you were to take a camera 35mm and put it in front of the screen. And use the right lense, the right configuration for it to shoot exactly what it sees. How good would it look? you shoot it frame by frame, rather then play the movie if you know what i mean.

So frame by frame you shoot the screen. You test a few seconds first to make sure it is not overexposing or under.

What do you think guys? I haven't heard a lot of people do it. I have tried it with 16 mm, just a few seconds and it looked promising(even though i made a few mistakes in configuring the shutter ans what not)


I mean a film camera shoots what it sees. So if what it sees is beautiful high quality imagery, shouldn't it look as good?
 
Thats pretty much how CGI is transferred to film. The problems you
run into are generally registration related. You need a REALLY precise
film transport to get good results.

If you're talking 35mm 'still camera' be forwarned, the images are
exposed differently than in say a 35mm movie camera. You cant
just take processed still camera footage, splice the pieces together and
project em.
 
Greggl said:
Thats pretty much how CGI is transferred to film. The problems you
run into are generally registration related. You need a REALLY precise
film transport to get good results.

If you're talking 35mm 'still camera' be forwarned, the images are
exposed differently than in say a 35mm movie camera. You cant
just take processed still camera footage, splice the pieces together and
project em.

my question is.. if done properly, is it possible to transfer a DVX or FX1 film from the screen to 35mm and making it look better then a normal film transfer?
 
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