OK, half framers. What about 1/3rd frame? What if there was a two-perf stills camera? (aka Techniscope).
You would get 108 shots on a roll of 36exp 35mm and they would all be wide 2.39:1 aspect ratio! Every frame would be a spaghetti western!
Check out the LomoKino. It does something like this with 35mm film. It's a rather flimsy plastic thing, like lots of Lomo stuff, but I have seen some very evocative short films made with it. Scanning, however, is a pain. The Film Photography Project has a special scanner for it and you can send your films to them for scanning, at a price. Or you can laboriously scan it at home.
These cameras were meant to record your golf swing as a teaching aid. I said stuff that and use them to make in camera collages.
They made a later version (BYU-N16) with 16 lenses. I found a couple of fun videos of how photographers are using them. One dood was using it to make GIF's.
bjhurley wrote:
Check out the LomoKino. It does something like this with 35mm film. It's a rather flimsy plastic thing, like lots of Lomo stuff, but I have seen some very evocative short films made with it. Scanning, however, is a pain. The Film Photography Project has a special scanner for it and you can send your films to them for scanning, at a price. Or you can laboriously scan it at home.
ottokbre wrote:
OK, half framers. What about 1/3rd frame? What if there was a two-perf stills camera? (aka Techniscope).
You would get 108 shots on a roll of 36exp 35mm and they would all be wide 2.39:1 aspect ratio! Every frame would be a spaghetti western!
I might have to try a mod on a doner camera.
Mixing cameras and doner is not a good idea. See the next post below as to why.
bjhurley wrote:
Check out the LomoKino. It does something like this with 35mm film. It's a rather flimsy plastic thing, like lots of Lomo stuff, but I have seen some very evocative short films made with it. Scanning, however, is a pain. The Film Photography Project has a special scanner for it and you can send your films to them for scanning, at a price. Or you can laboriously scan it at home.
panos.v wrote:
Plus...it only makes one look: the "I had a doner kebab and my fingers are full of grease and I touched the lens" look.
Oh, I don't know about that; the LomoKino group on Flickr has some nice stuff (along with some horrible footage that'll make you seasick). The secret is to always use a tripod, and even then the inside mechanism seems to have some play so your videos are never really stable. The whole goal of that thing is low-fi, impressionistic films; it takes maybe 10 or 12 rolls of film to get enough usable footage for a 30-second video. A lot of effort but sometimes the result can be beautiful.
But there's a reason nobody has added any new videos to that group in years -- the machine is not reliable and scanning is a major problem. I thought about buying one but I already have the OG Blackmagic Pocket Cinema camera, which can take relatively film-like digital video on its tiny Super-16-size Fairchild sensor; for example#t=30
madNbad wrote:
They made a later version (BYU-N16) with 16 lenses. I found a couple of fun videos of how photographers are using them. One dood was using it to make GIF's.
Yeah I have the 8 and the 16. The thing that makes the 16 much better is that you can take single shots. With the 8 it always takes the entire string, the only thing you can vary is the speed at which it takes them.
The 16 lens version is actually an excellent cheapskate camera. One roll of film in it is basically like shooting eight rolls in a regular camera! If you think it takes a long time shooting 36 exposures, try shooting 288!
