Night Test #4

[@amartinjoe]

That is absolutely beautiful. It almost has that 1970s Scorsese-filmed New York city gritty feel to it.

[@mikailuscinema]

You are too kind.

[@mikailuscinema]

This isn't super 8. It's 16mm.

[@calvin2538]

This is unbelievably cinematic!!

[@dreamlandcinema644]

Looks great! Do you have any links that helped you learn these techniques that you could share? I would like to do some tests just like this myself.

[@dylanf3970]

All the images in this are so beautiful and striking. I’m a student currently and can’t exactly afford a camera like this right now, but have been in awe since i saw this footage, and am thinking of saving up. I was just wondering if you had any advice about whether or not that would be worth it and if you could talk about the costs of shooting something like this in terms of film processing, scanning, etc.

[@DanFontaine]

This is stunning

[@rickdacosta9727]

Looks way better than what I though was possible with 16mm film in those lighting conditions. The girl in Spadina has nice legs.

[@violenthell]

Absolutely exquisite!

[@AnaloguePhoto]

This looks beautiful. But also, it looks like it was shot at night. Something that's sometimes easy to mess up with video on modern cameras that can utilize very high ISO with very little image degradation. This looks clean and like it should.

[@untitledhalo2]

This is the best test I’ve ever seen wow

[@borisathmer6197]

Wow! This is so amazing

[@Browzan]

sick!

[@chevalier_de_balibari]

This is stunning. How did you manage to get such a clean image? I've shot on film plenty of times before but never at night. Now I have a music video coming up in a month with 100% of the scenes taking place at night. Planning to shoot on 500T but still torn whether to push it 1 stop or rate it at 500. Did you push the film here? Thanks in advance!

[@alinbambarac9129]

Awsome! Can You be kind and share you little secret or the techniques, studyes etc?

[@elliotsvision1023]

beautiful

[@LukeRobertsFilm]

Great nocturnal images! Really like the colors. Also, Angeniux 12-120mm?

[@mikailuscinema]

Thanks! It's actually a Kern Switar 10mm f1.4 @ 2.8, pushed three stops, should've pushed four instead. I also had with me a 6mm adaptor for the 10mm.

[@bryans8653]

when you say you pushed three stops - that means you told the processing place to expose as if it was 1600? Right? Trying to understand the lingo. :)

[@violenthell]

@@bryans8653 No, he means that he told the lab to over-process the film (in processing shadows do not overdevelop, but highlights continue to increase until stopped/fixed), so the lab processed for an extended amount of time to gain him an addition 3 stops of light in the highlights. This is the secret spice to motion film.

[@csb65536]

16mm, Super 8mm?

[@truefilm1556]

Please allow me to reply: it's 16mm. The Beaulieu 2016 is a regular 16mm camera.

[@ShaunDobbie]

This video has inspired me to get a 16mm camera and to build a film developing machine.

[@spedslojp3353]

how did you make the film developing machine??

[@3ZX8Ball]

Awesome!

[@Janishadiary]

Ur video reminds me of the opening sequence of The movie"Risky business"

[@TheCinemaTologist]

Fantastic!

[@Vahmrick60]

Nice. Best of your reels. How quiet is the 2016? I shot with an R-16 for years.

[@REINVENTEDPictures]

Top tier

[@EverettDudgeon138]

Love your work! You are based in Toronto too I see. Are you a member at LIFT?

[@sethman7803]

Awesome.

[@charlieweston2292]

do you have to push the footage after at all? if so what kind of aperture are you shooting at?

[@brianchilds]

Have you found better film stock for 16mm night cinematography? or is the 500T the best? I'm new to 16mm & am just learning

[@jrewretro]

Hey fam do you recommend 500T as the best film for shooting @nightime low light ? Thanks

[@joelldm]

What lens did you shoot on? Have a night shoot coming up and could use some pointers

[@arsenpisahov2409]

Shot by????

[@rossjennings8264]

What particular ISO are you using to shoot the stock footage of Kodak Vision film reel?

[@lynchstan9745]

500T

[@ElectricLabel]

Utterly beautiful.

[@bobhobbs8974]

Hey man! Are you using any filters in the last 35 seconds of the film?

[@mikailuscinema]

Nope. :-)

[@bobhobbs8974]

Fantastic

[@goatmen7996]

this footage looks like its from the late 1980s and early 1990s

[@ShaunDobbie]

Could you please advise what specific camera you used? I am wanting to do some night time stuff with a canon scoopic which has a T2.5 lens. 2.5 is the true stop rating with light loss from the viewfinder subtracted.

[@nickjack5009]

hi do you have an email i can contact you at ?

[@unit2083]

Which bealieu did you use? Like which specific camera

[@zcbensel]

Had to be an R16.