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Response to hollywood look on DV

from rick rose (rickrose1@yahoo.com)
There's an adaptor (price $13000 or so new) that you can buy to attach film lenses to the front of your XL-1. Assuming you don't have this money, you can rent it....

Toronto area folks, contact Kingsway films - it's $450 a day for big budget stuff, but I know you can haggle them down.

HOWEVER.... Personally, i just shot a short on DVCAM on a Sony DSR500 which is a much better camera (3/4 chip) than the XL1 with film adaptor converter on it and it was quite cheap. Rented it from Joe Sutherlands in Toronto, footage looks great. I rented the ENTIRE CAMERA and ADAPTOR for the week, and paid much less than renting that Kingsway adaptor for a week by itsself at Joe Sutherlands. www.joesutherland.com

Anyway, film lenses look like film, and have less depth of field, while video lenses tend to look flatter, more in focus. Personally I find that makes a lot of difference in how your film will look, especially the ability to rack focus.

(posted 7738 days ago)

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