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[Eliud25]

Konvas 35mm Movie Camera Link
Hello I got a kranogorsk-3 which I just recently used to shoot 2 100 feet of 16mm kodak movie film in Austin. I am on my way to making my feature film and then sending it off to agents. Let History be made. I was just wondering if any of you used a krasongorsk-3 or a Konvas 35mm ??? Well what are your experiences. Please click on the link and tell me what you think. Thanks [img]graemlins/film.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]cool.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[eddie]

good for you.
whats your film about?
Is it in colour, or B/W?
whats it called?
how long is it going to be?

[Eliud25]

Well to be honest I don't have a name as per say but I am about to send one film to flicker and another one to south by southwest film festival that will screen on March. I am hoping my films are accepted. Then they will screen them on flicker in front of a big audience. Mostly filmmaking college student, want to be filmmakers, want to be actors, and want to be producers with their dates. However, on March Austin,Texas South by Southwest film festival should come up and there will be all the film agents and producers and directors that will screen the films. Hollywood most talented will be there so hopefully I will get an agent and make history.


So I have begun to slowly but surely understand Austin and I have come to the conclusion that Austin is the place to be if someone like me wants to make it big in the film industry. As you all know America is the land of opportunity and with this opportunity comes great fame and fortune. However, how does one start on the road to greatness or should I say great filmmaking. As I watched the Matrix on TV, I realized that Hollywood is just a name, and that Austin to is just a name as well. You see filmmaking, weather it be a 100 million dollar feature or a 1000 feature has more to do with the ability to be creative and inventive than on a proper film crew or money. As I attended the Super 8 film festivals and shows, which were shown in different theatres in Austin, I realized 2 things. 1. Austin tends to show you the way by show casing ones work on the big screen. So let?s say I have a small super 8 film which filmmakers submit to let?s say Flicker, which shows filmmakers work bimonthly, then they project it on the big screen in front of a group of low budget filmmakers and their dates and families. 2. Filmmakers in Austin have this mentality that one should make films for quality not for fame. That ones films should be better. Why do they have this mentality? Because most films that are showcased are of poor quality with bad composition, weird angles, inaudible or out of sync sound, fuzzy images, discolored film experimental or just plain bad. Don?t get me wrong some are really good. Some are exceptional. As I attended these film festivals I realized that if you make it in Austin, you make it in Hollywood. Why? Because Austin has an atmosphere that encourages filmmakers to go for ones dream. So know I understand why great filmmakers come from Austin. It is the way the whole system is set up. Sooner or later someone who really pays attention to all these super 8 and 16mm films and learns from them, becomes great because that director absorbs all those film ideas and incorporates them into his/her style of filmmaking. Yes they do. And then they want to create better films because they get tired of seeing experimental or low budget shorts and they say to themselves? I can do better? Don?t get me wrong I am not putting no one down. On the contrary I am praising the fact that these little film festivals help filmmakers become great. Yes sir/madam now I understand
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[seekaee]

The K-3 is a cool little camera (I have one) The ycan accept different camera lenses and have a non-reflex viewing system. Meaning you can see the image coming threw the lens. A lot of 16mm cameras don't have that option.

Their biggest drawback however with the K-3 is that they are equipped with wind-up motors only. So synced sound is out of the question.

There is a place in upstate NY that do customized work and can assemble a crystal-sync motor into a K-3. However, they charge so dam much that it's not even worth it. For the price they're asking for you could buy an even better camera like an Eclair NPL or a CP-16.

Still, the K-3 a good deal. Especialy when you can get them for as low as $99 bucks on Ebay.