Ektachrome 100D- Indoor Lighting

A few leftover clips from a roll of Super 8 Ektachrome 100D filmed indoors using 5500K color-corrected daylight fluorescent lamps.

Filmed with a Canon 514XL

Processing by Pac Lab, NYC
DIY Telecine

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Ekatchrome 100D Indoors
• Super 8 Ektachrome 100D
• Canon 514XL
• 5500K Ektachrome 100D
• Super 8 DIY Telecine
• DIY Telecine
• Super 8 Today

[gelo33]

Awesome work!

Do you have any tips for shooting on Ektachrome 100D with a Canon 514 XL?

I recently bought a 514 off eBay and am now contemplating buying a cartridge of 100D.

Please give me some pointers! I've never shot on Super 8 before!

[x05e]

@gelo33 Just PM'd you. Thanks!

[jimdevo]

@x05e Will do, good advice, thanks again.

[x05e]

@jimdevo The 814AZE is a GREAT camera, so you're in good hands. Be aware that an XL camera lets in more lite than a non-XL, since it has a shutter opening of 200 degress or more, compared to the 814 which is 180 (I believe). This shouldn't make much of a diff if you're reading at least f4.0 and above in your viewfinder. You may want to consider "locking" the exposure for scenes that have moving objects. Just auto expose the scene, see what the internal meter reads, then set it manually to that.

[jimdevo]

@x05e Wow, thanks I learned so much, so nice of you to share. Yes I will be putting up samples in a few weeks. I have been searching for these answers for awhile so this was VERY helpful! Especially the camera specific info. My 814 is in great shape so looking forward to seeing the results.

[x05e]

@jimdevo...(Part II). I did this since I wanted to use the film at 100ASA. If I were to use tungsten (or non daylight-balanced regular lights), I would need to place an 80A (blue) filter in front of the lens, and that would reduce my ASA to 25 (which would require much more stronger lighting).

The exposure was set to on full auto on my Canon 514XL. Hope this helps...let me know if you need me to clarify further, be glad to. Good luck with your shoot, would love to see some samples!

[x05e]

@jimdevo Hi! Yes this is reversal film...Ektachrome 100D. It was shot "as is" since the Canon 814 will automatically move the daylight (orange) filter out of the way by default with this cartridge, (it's notched as such that it pushes the filter pin inside the camera). The key here is to use daylight-balanced lighting. In my case I used the spiral fluorescent standard socket bulbs you can get pretty much anywhere. Just make sure they say "daylight-balanced" and that they're 5500K ..Cont...

[jimdevo]

Is this a reversal film? I am currently shooting with 100D with a Canon 815 AZ Electronic and worry my film will be underexposed on the indoor shots. Did you manually set the exposure? What kind of lamps do you recommend? Nice job, very inspiring. Hope you will impart some knowledge to us beginners.

[KRAFTWERK2K6]

@x05e That would be cool! :) I've done something like that in 2006 with my last Kodachrome. I was at my best buddys home and placed my Super 8 camera onto a tripod and was filming something from his LCD which had power save mode running and was not bright enough. Unfortunally it all turned out to be a bit too dark due to the low sensitivity of the K40. I did two runs of capturing a scene from the "the war of the worlds (2005)" DVD. With and once without tungsten filter. Looked pretty nice :)

[x05e]

@KRAFTWERK2K6 Thanks! BTW there was very minimal color-correction done on these. It's due to the fact I used the daylight-balanced lamps. I loved the way the LCD TV shows up on these. I thought about what you wrote and may try shooting with the HV20, piping it to the TV and filming it with this film...should be an interesting experiment.