Bruce Morgan
Well-known member
Hello
I am shooting a 35mm feature film .
I use a very big lab in Los Angeles .
In my many years of 35mm film camera operation and dp work i have never had many perforation tears.
I do shoot less than most .
However the rise in damaged film perfs has grown past anything previouslty known by the lab tech folks in production services
.
A major film based tv show about crime scenes has a report of 450 perforation tears per season .
This event of perf tears requires the lab to cut frames around the tear area and the shot loses as much as five or six frames .
The only theory is that when newly trained camera crew people are "checking the Gate ' that there is a handeling problem .
There is also a particular model panavison( camera which can film in reverse) is prone to promate film tears .
Id like to hear more from some film crew veterans out there on this subject .
Cheers
Bruce
I am shooting a 35mm feature film .
I use a very big lab in Los Angeles .
In my many years of 35mm film camera operation and dp work i have never had many perforation tears.
I do shoot less than most .
However the rise in damaged film perfs has grown past anything previouslty known by the lab tech folks in production services
.
A major film based tv show about crime scenes has a report of 450 perforation tears per season .
This event of perf tears requires the lab to cut frames around the tear area and the shot loses as much as five or six frames .
The only theory is that when newly trained camera crew people are "checking the Gate ' that there is a handeling problem .
There is also a particular model panavison( camera which can film in reverse) is prone to promate film tears .
Id like to hear more from some film crew veterans out there on this subject .
Cheers
Bruce