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You also have the option to telecine at 30fps. Thats what I recomend, its all I have ever done. At that rate it doesn't matter what FPS you shot at, every frame will take up exactly one frame of video (2 feilds). From that you tell your project (in your timeline) how to interpret the film...

I'd second the recomendation for the JVC 110. I shot a feature with the sony ZU1 (older cousin to the FX-1, and actually we started production with the FX-1) and right now I am shooting a short with the 110. Its a much better camera, cleaner image and less hassle on set. The only problem is...

yeah a good upscale is your best bet. What was your format of origination? something like digi-beta upscales nicely. beta-SP or dv (mini-DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO-25) has a little more issue with an up-res. DVCPRO-50 handles it well, but not as well as digibeta. Lazering to film for an HD telecine...

For a short I am working on now I checked out a litany of various cameras to purchase. We settled on a JVC HD-110. I love that camera for what we are doing. Tricked out with matte box and followfocus, and handles its a great camera and I think it cost the production around 4700 with all...

I am not sure why you'd want to put it to 16mm, since most places can't project 16. Also you'll add more grain with that method. 35 is more standard, since more options are made for it. old 16mm CRT printers are still around cheaply, but are in bad repair and won't give you a very high...

Oh, you may be surprised. I live in anchorage and am a DP, working on a short right now. Theres other shorts going on after that and features. I know I think 3 or 4 quality directors, Key Grips, grips, camera ops, make up people, creature makeup, SFX, EFX, etc. Theres a decent crew base, but...

Prep Well I think you need to look at all the departments and see what all is involved. Camera prep is almost the last to prep (maybe caterers and craft services get less prep time) First and foremost a script breakdown happens with the producer and the director. They decide where they want...

Haha, yeah sometimes I forget. At least I wasn't telling him he needs to keep plenty of butt plugs on set :) extra credit for anyone who knows what that is. rocky legs = light stand with one or two legs that can extend to compensate for uneven ground lazy leg C-stand = a C-stand where one...

Genny will probably be your best bet. If the cave has any wide shots, you'll never get exposure, even if your going for a dark look. If your camera is 320asa (average for video) you'll still need 1-2 thousand watts to get to a dark image on screen. After that you probably want hot pools of...

HD seems to be a given, esp. if you have P2 cards (which you would need to shoot HD). DV encodes at 19mb/s (not counting audio), and P2 encodes at around 100mb/s. Even though there is 6 times more pixels with only 5 times the data, in SD any artifact will be 1/6th the size it would on SD...

Whats the day rate for the camera package and whats included with it? Also do you charge for travel days? I am in Alaska

Well it depends on your shooting style. A matte box really doesn't do much other than make flagging easy and convinient. The first obvious affect is the ability to easily get snappy blacks and higher contrast, but its all dependent on your lighting style. A soft backlight will tend to fall...