User talk:Girolamo Savonarola/list of film formats

the "SR" in Arriflex SR actually stands for single-relex, not silent reflex.

Garrettpedia (talk) 17:59, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Girolamo,

Got your message. Well, what a work you're doing ! I never figured out there were or been so many formats !

You say Super 16 was invented by Ericson. I know that name, but I thought the french engineer Jean-Pierre Beauviala - who runs Aaton - actually built up the first super 16 camera ever made. Do you reckon he cannot be considered as the inventor ?

As for translating to mm, I can do the job if you want.

And, thanks, I'm ok with format dimensions by now (about my request on cinematography.com)

Regards,

Laurent

laurent andrieux


 * Hey Laurent, thanks for the quick reply! As I remember it, Aaton was the first company to actually make a ready-made S16 camera for the explicit purpose of shooting in the S16 format. What Ericson had done before was his own modifications on cameras built for R16. But he had been doing this for many years before - he started developing the format in 1965, and I'm sure he shot many many tests well before going out to do the feature Blushing Charlie. Aaton started making their S16 cameras in 1972, but that's about three years after Blushing Charlie was shot. This Kodak site explains a lot too.


 * As far as conversion to mm, thanks for the offer, but I want to wait until I feel the table is complete enough and stable enough to release first. Also, as I'm sure you probably already know, some of the mm values are straight integers, so it requires some additional research too - plugging in these numbers into a conversion utility might give slight deviations. Girolamo Savonarola 11:00, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

"ome of the mm values are straight integers, so it requires some additional research too - plugging in these numbers into a conversion utility might give slight deviations"

Oh yes I'm aware of that. One of the reasons I didn't want just to calculate from inches, as I said in the cinematography.com's forum, actually. I'm waiting for John Pytlack's answer with smpte specifications, but I'll tell you what, I've found, at last, the sheet I'v got from Panavision Paris with all the gates dimensions in mm, but don't want to keep John from giving me the smpte figures. That would, compared to panavision values, be a good source, woudn't it ?

And thanks for the reminder about super 16 history. I think it's ok leaving ericson as the inventor, for sure, but may be we could just mention Aaton as the first Super 16 camera builder ? (My chauvin side, it must be...:))