Black Metal Diaries
First time shooting with the Bolex-Paillard-P1
First time shooting with the Bolex-Paillard-P1 I just came back from shooting the first half of the first double 8 roll. It was the first decent sunshine in weeks, so I felt it needed to be done now or never. Mistakes have been made... I must have loaded the film crooked, somewhat, because after the first 5 seconds it got stuck. So I had to open the film chamber and fix that, loosing part of the frames of course. But I wanted to fix it on the field, just to see what impact that will have. Next it got stuck again, or so I thought... I opened up again, this time, no movement, darn... I forgot to wind up this time. From here on things went smoother. First thing I learned, even though my film is 100 ISO, Direct sunlight is too bright, I might need to use some ND filters or shoot in higher frame rates to compensate. I will have to develop the footage to confirm this though. I managed to develop some workflow before each recording: Lock the camera Wind up the motor Check frame rat...
"The" Bram Stoker novel? Loved it too. They don't write 'em like that anymore.
ReplyDeleteYup, the big D. haha. Very true, it's really old school.
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