Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The reason I brought this up is, At the end of the film Last Waltz by Martin Scorsese, during the Jam session, the film abruptly stops and there is a written notice that 35 mm cameras are not built to run for the periods they were used to film the jam session which was around 6 hrs. I'm sure they had to stop and change film and so they were off during the film changes. Anybody have any insight to this? Gene -----Original Message----- From: Feli <feli2@earthlink.net> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:47:33 -0700 Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: 35mm film cameras On Apr 23, 2005, at 7:12 AM, Grduprey@aol.com wrote: > This is for our movie film industry people. I heard the other day > that > 35mm > movie cameras are not made for doing long filming sequences and over > > heat > rather quickly. Is this true? If so, does this mean that you go > through > several > cameras over the filming of a movie film? > > Gene Not true. You can easily run 1000 ft of 35mm film (about 9-10 minutes) through a camera at normal frame rates. (0-120fps) Older cameras like the Mitchell need a few drops of lubrication every 10,000 ft or so, but that is just to avoid wear and tear. My Mitchell-NCR is 70 years old and still runs like a charm. Ultra-high speed cameras like a Photo Sonics can shoot up 360 fps. An example of their use would be some of the ultra-slowmotion shots in the Matrix films. I haven't dealt with these personally, and I would guess that the transport movement is kept well lubricated. But I have never heard of a heat problem. Feli ________________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information