My first film test roll

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Here's a clip of my first piece of 16mm film I ever shot. I was not going for an award in cinematography. More or less looking for scratches, light leak problems, or other lens or camera problems because I bought the camera off Ebay. It's shot on a Bolex reflex H16 on 7231 Plus X negative B&W. I used a Sekonic Studio Delux III light meter and Cinelab did the telecine. The black bar on the right is of no fault of Cinelab. It's showed up when I put the footage in Compressor for whatever reason. Most is 24 FPS, the slow motion is 64 FPS.

Never shot any film or used a light meter before. I think it came out pretty good. There's some slight exposure problems and some footage looks soft, but I can work those bugs out. I was just playing around with slow motion and the DOF.

http://z5films.com/videos/filmtest3.mov

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That is awesome my friend!! Great job man! That is exactly how 16mm is supposed to look. I love the slow motion, and great job with the depth of field shots, ie the flower shots... nice job! Keep shooting film!

Colin
 
Doesn't look too bad, but you should've travelled around the city a little more and captured something more interesting :).

How was it in terms of costs? Where I am it's actually cheaper to shoot colour than b&w.
 
Dmitry Kichenko said:
Doesn't look too bad, but you should've travelled around the city a little more and captured something more interesting :).

How was it in terms of costs? Where I am it's actually cheaper to shoot colour than b&w.
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I was not going for an award. I had bought the camera off Ebay and it most mostly a test to see if the camera was working properly, not scratching the film, etc..

I have another roll of B&W I'm going to test with a different lens. I'll prolly try to be a little more creative.
 
I know it's a test but why waste a whole roll on the same thing. Might as well shoot a mini-film while you're at it right.
 
Great post. Now everyone who asks what a flash frame is can actually see it at the end of your roll. It also occurs on other camera between takes as the camera winds down, but the Bolex doesn't really wind down, it just stops when you take your finger off of the button.
 
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