I guess wide 70mm film would be in the lower spectrum of large format, but it's not exactly what I imagine when I think of large format.
Filming in such enormous formats is something that fascinates me though. The camera has to be quite the machine, I imagine. Probably not very silent.
Kinda makes me wish there was, or at least hope to see a cold war film from the European perspective.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXWUCmeUF9o[/media]
Here's the whole thing, it's pretty neat.
[QUOTE=Paul-Simon;52731123]I guess wide 70mm film would be in the lower spectrum of large format, but it's not exactly what I imagine when I think of large format.
Filming in such enormous formats is something that fascinates me though. The camera has to be quite the machine, I imagine. Probably not very silent.[/QUOTE]
What do you imagine, if I might ask?
Other than horizontal 70 (i.e. IMAX) I'm not sure there's really any larger motion picture formats than 5-perf vertical 65/70mm. Unless you start getting into rare things like 3-strip cinerama, which is 3 strips of 6-perf vertical 35mm.
I guess if you're coming from the still world "large format" is 4x5 and up but while that would probably be [I]amazing[/I] it would also be completely impractical if possible at all.
[QUOTE=BMCHa;52734213]What do you imagine, if I might ask?
Other than horizontal 70 (i.e. IMAX) I'm not sure there's really any larger motion picture formats than 5-perf vertical 65/70mm. Unless you start getting into rare things like 3-strip cinerama, which is 3 strips of 6-perf vertical 35mm.
I guess if you're coming from the still world "large format" is 4x5 and up but while that would probably be [I]amazing[/I] it would also be completely impractical if possible at all.[/QUOTE]
My experience with large format comes from still photography where I've shot with and developed most common formats of film, and some large format stuff.
Before reading this thread I didn't even know video was ever shot on larger than 60mm medium format, so I wasn't really sure what to expect when it said large format - frankly I thought the title was an error, because what I associate with "large format" is kind of extreme I guess. Didn't mean to come off as an ass or anything.
I couldn't really imagine any sort of cinema camera operating with spools of film that size :v:
Yeah I didn't mean to come off as confrontational or anything, was just genuinely interested in knowing what you were thinking of.
I mostly shoot medium format (6x6) myself and have done some 4x5 as well so I'm well aware of the still terms and there is a mismatch on what defines "large format" between stills and films, probably because there's no point in calling 70mm "medium format" if it's the largest one there is (whereas in stills you have 4x5/8x10/ULF and so 70 is way down in medium format land next to 120 film).
I've always had an interest in larger-than-35mm films since I started shooting MF myself, and living a few miles away from a 15/70 IMAX theater and just an hour or two away from LA I've had the pleasure of seeing a handful of 70mm projections in person. The 60's-era films look pretty great already, but the stuff shot on new stocks (e.g. Nolan's IMAX movies and the Hateful 8) are just unbelievably sharp along with having contrast that digital projection unfortunately still has yet to match.
Gotta love how the first line conveniently glosses over the civil war
This has some pretty friggin intense footage, especially when the hawker hunters showed up!
I'm glad this footage was saved.
[QUOTE=Kljunas;52734624]Gotta love how the first line conveniently glosses over the civil war[/QUOTE]
Better wording would probably be on Switzerland's proclamation of neutrality after Napoleon's Empire was out of the picture following Waterloo, but hey, the poor narrator's just reading his lines. :v:
[QUOTE=BMCHa;52734498]Yeah I didn't mean to come off as confrontational or anything, was just genuinely interested in knowing what you were thinking of.
I mostly shoot medium format (6x6) myself and have done some 4x5 as well so I'm well aware of the still terms and there is a mismatch on what defines "large format" between stills and films, probably because there's no point in calling 70mm "medium format" if it's the largest one there is (whereas in stills you have 4x5/8x10/ULF and so 70 is way down in medium format land next to 120 film).
I've always had an interest in larger-than-35mm films since I started shooting MF myself, and living a few miles away from a 15/70 IMAX theater and just an hour or two away from LA I've had the pleasure of seeing a handful of 70mm projections in person. The 60's-era films look pretty great already, but the stuff shot on new stocks (e.g. Nolan's IMAX movies and the Hateful 8) are just unbelievably sharp along with having contrast that digital projection unfortunately still has yet to match.[/QUOTE]
Wish I could see something like that. Not sure if theaters like that even exist in Norway.
Dig all the big stalhelm-esque M18s. Such a cool, massive helmet; it almost looks sci-fi.
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