Movie Making Manual/Cinematography/Cameras and Formats/Celluloid

Note that wikipedia has some excellent articles on celluloid that we should not try to replicate, instead we should point to these articles

How celluloid works


 * Super 8mm Film
 * 16mm Film
 * 35mm Film
 * 70mm Film
 * IMAX

2 perf 35mm
For a general description of 2-perf 35mm, see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-perf_pulldown#2-perf

Suppliers of 2-perf cameras

 * Solid Entertainment (based in Malmo in Southern Sweden)
 * Mark Hope-Jones, mhope-jones@arrimedia.com (London, UK)

Costs
GBP:

footage per minute: 1min @ 25fps on 4-perf 35mm = 93.8ft 1min @ 25fps on 2-perf 35mm = 46.2ft 1min @ 25fps on s16mm = 37.5ft stock costs (new): 400ft of 35mm 5218 (Kodak Vision2 500T) = £142.80 400ft of 16mm 7218 (Kodak Vision2 500T) = £80.33 developing (Technicolor): 16mm = 9p/foot 35mm = 11.5p/foot So, the total costs per minute for stock + dev @ 25fps: 4-perf 35mm = £44.27 2-perf 35mm = £21.81 super-16mm = £10.91

=External Links=


 * Why Do Images Captured on Celluloid Have A Sort of Glossy Look When Well Mastered DV Footage Doesn't? - from UKFilm.org

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