For you haters of Electronic Imagery hit the delete button now. Hello!
Hello! any buddy out there?
I am not a latent image shooter like you people. I record my images
by a color proces affectionately called "Never The Same Color." My
electronic film probably has 1/40 (72 DPI) the resolving power of your
latent image film. As it is manny 100s of dpi. So in no order of importance
here are my reasons for useing a Polar filter.
* (1) It makes Saturated Colurs.I like that so dose my electronic film
* (2) It takes my narrow exposer band (dark not black) to (light
not white) and turns a bald sky into a blue sky and shows up any white
fluffy clouds. and still shows detail in a black Steam Engine. I like that
and so dose my wave form monitor.
* (3) I do not use The electronic shutter speed for exposure
control as I need motion blurring. This is one of the things they are
talking about when they say "The Film Look" the US.standard for a movie
camera is 24 frames a second, About 1/50th of a second. Some time look at a
strip of movie film with action in the shot and you will see a string of
motion burred frames but when this is projected it shows the action
smoothly. The Electronic film is 60, 1/2 frames a second shuffled to gether
like a deck of cards to give you 30 full frames at 100 of a second. That is
what gives you the hard look.They try maney electronic tricks to get a film
look. That is why the best electronic look is to shoot on movie film at 24
frames second and then step print it up to 30 frames a second to the
electronic film standard of the US. Therefore I only have F stops for
exposure control. "Rule of thumb" any lens other than a pin hole camera or
lenses at F45 or F96 which could be considered pin hole (see the movie
"Citizen Kane") is at it's sharpest two stops closed from wide open. I
therefore find my electronic camera at F16 or more in full sun. But with a
ND (neutral density) filter behind the lens and the F stops loss of the
Polar filter on the frount I get down to F4 or F5.6. I like that so dose
the image. (Do not mix up depth of field with the sharpest working abature
of a lens.) Yes if you are shooting into the sun you can see the extra
glass. After there is no more point source light (Sun is gone and only
reflected light left and I need more exposure I can remove the Polar filter
as it is no longer working and replace it with a haze, sky or optical flat
*(4) ( I would rather have a filter of some sort on the front of
the lens to catch rocks and things,thumb prints, nose prints and aardvarks
etc. It is a lot cheaper that messing up the front element of the Lens,
Well I never said the V---- word once. I will now turn off my
E-Mail for a week and then delete every thing.
By for now
DANA
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Dana Fuller
Dana Fuller Company
PO Box 70282, Richmond, CA 94807-0282
Voice 510-620-0330 * Fax 510-620-1839
URL: http://www.trainsonvideo.com
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