RE: Eclair Cameras: Digest for EclairACL@topica.com, issue 548

[promethean_cine <drewravani@hotmail.com>]

Censorship for snide comments targeted at someone's linguistic skills or 
generally rude behaviour seems civilized - I for one don't want my time 
wasted with childish musings or adolescent finger pointing regarding 
punctuation, spelling, or grammar.
I prefer to hear about the topic I signed up for.

I have found the wealth of info available on the list to be of immense 
benefit to my filmmaking.
On another topic, I recently used my Eclair ACL2 to shoot the men's and 
women's world freestyle championships in NYC at Madison Square Gardens - the 
final matches got the rich benefit of film while all of the lower matches 
only got the DV treatment.
As the skin tones of the people competing ranged from a deep chocolate brown 
to the "bleachy NY tan" white, I had to find stock that would put up with 
the ugly lighting of the Garden and give me the detail demanded for sports 
shooting. I decided to shoot the Reala 500D stock and the Vision2 7218 - and 
compare after the shoot. The Reala was corrected behind the lens with a gel 
filter (CTB1/4) and came out great! it muted the green of the "efficiency" 
bulbs of the Garden's lighting grid and did an amazing job of keeping the 
color spectrum elsewise - even with the CTB.
My question now is: What Eclair specific tricks have people out there been 
using to get the most mileage out of there cameras with the rich allotment 
of stocks now available to us? How creative have you been with your camera?
What's your favorite low budget lighting package? We don't all have access 
to the latest in gear - but I suspect the suggestions and insight of the 
many seasoned professionals on this board will prove interesting and 
valuable to us all.
The only way to keep shooting film is to stay creative and keep pulling 
newer and better rabbits out of our respective hats.
Otherwise its off to the retirement home for us all, and the DV kids get the 
job.
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