Question about 35 set up

[Brian@202020]

I've had an M2 in the past and then upgraded to a Letus Extreme about a year ago. I used them both with my HVX. I remember back then there was a post about taping up a sheet of paper, measure a certain distance, have a certain lens on, and zoom in on the camera until the paper fills the whole screen except for a 1/4 in on the sides or something like that. I can't seem to find that post anywhere. can anyone link me to this post. I ask because I'm setting up my new 170 and I'm not sure how far to zoom in.

 

[fixitinpost]

I don't have a link to the post, but the process is as follows:

Put on a 50mm lens. Hang up the sheet of paper (8.5x11) with the long side on the horizontal axis. Place the film plane 2' from the paper. Zoom in until the paper hits edges of frame (if I remember correctly). This should give you an s35 frame size.

 

[Shibuya Oboya]

This is grabbed from another page, quoted from Barry Green. Pretty much what was just explained.

" A 35mm movie camera has a frame size of about 22mm x 16mm, not the 36mm x 24mm size of a still camera. What you want to do is zoom in to the ground glass far enough that you set up your field of view to match what a 35mm movie camera would see, using the same focal length lens at the same distance. An easy way to do that (and get pretty darn close) would be to use an 8.5 x 11” sheet of paper, taped to a wall sideways (i.e., “landscape” orientation), and set your camera about two feet away from it. With a 50mm lens, focused at 2’, you should be just cropping off the edges of the paper (ideally you’d have about a 10.5” wide field of view from two feet away when using a 50mm lens). If you configure your zoom such that you’re just cropping off the edges of the paper, you’re basically matching the field of view of a 35mm movie camera at that point."