John Harvey
August 26th, 2005, 01:27 PM
Working feverishly over the last eight months and finally have something to show for it, thought I'd share my results so far. Sample footage is on my web page here on the samples page.
www.magicine.com
First I want to say you all have been an inspiration, and this forum invaluable. This effort was born out of the desire to capture my script in the most flattering light possible, now I need to couple it with an HD something, and I'm ready to go. Keeping my fingers crossed for the Andromeda mod. I really want 4:4:4 color space.
The one unique aspect of the design is I can capture the whole 35mm SLR aperture, 36mm x 24mm vs something smaller than the limited Academy aperature of the Mini35, 24mm x 18mm. In other words, I have twice the image area which inherantly reduces image screen artifacts by 50% among other benifets like full 35mm SLR angle of view, something that is important to me since I don't have the budget to build sets with removable walls. I also use a specialized proprietry material that is 90% transmissive of light and imperfection free vs 60-70% of ground glass and it's irregularities.
I own a fabrication shop so I designed it in SolidWorks and machined everything to within a few .001's that way I know my image plane and achromat macro is perpendicular to the optical axis and at the right distance solidly. I needed a trouble free reliable setup when I'm on set or location. The Camera alignment table gives me up/dwn, side to side adjustment with limited rotation in the same axis, this was critical for focusing on and framing the whole 36mm by 24mm aperture.
Since i am in the throws of pre-production at the moment I probably won't be able to field posts frequantly so i apologize in advance.
cheers,
john harvey
PS: Bottom line is get our stories told.
www.magicine.com
First I want to say you all have been an inspiration, and this forum invaluable. This effort was born out of the desire to capture my script in the most flattering light possible, now I need to couple it with an HD something, and I'm ready to go. Keeping my fingers crossed for the Andromeda mod. I really want 4:4:4 color space.
The one unique aspect of the design is I can capture the whole 35mm SLR aperture, 36mm x 24mm vs something smaller than the limited Academy aperature of the Mini35, 24mm x 18mm. In other words, I have twice the image area which inherantly reduces image screen artifacts by 50% among other benifets like full 35mm SLR angle of view, something that is important to me since I don't have the budget to build sets with removable walls. I also use a specialized proprietry material that is 90% transmissive of light and imperfection free vs 60-70% of ground glass and it's irregularities.
I own a fabrication shop so I designed it in SolidWorks and machined everything to within a few .001's that way I know my image plane and achromat macro is perpendicular to the optical axis and at the right distance solidly. I needed a trouble free reliable setup when I'm on set or location. The Camera alignment table gives me up/dwn, side to side adjustment with limited rotation in the same axis, this was critical for focusing on and framing the whole 36mm by 24mm aperture.
Since i am in the throws of pre-production at the moment I probably won't be able to field posts frequantly so i apologize in advance.
cheers,
john harvey
PS: Bottom line is get our stories told.