Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 4/23/2005 9:13:48 A.M. Central Daylight Time, Grduprey@aol.com writes: 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 That may be true for high speed (slow motion) cameras, but when you figure that the largest magazines usually available are 1200 foot capacity (4 mil film) that's only about 15 minutes of recording time. That's only an estimate, because of various 35mm frame formats, and I mostly shot 16mm for docs. 1200 feet in 16 gives you slightly more than 30 minutes at synch sound speed; even in the stormy Louisiana Legislature in the 60's, I never had a camera overheat. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish