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Author Topic: Harry Potter Quality? Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-06-2004 06:58 AM                     Has anyone been able to compare the Imax version with the 35? I'm planning on seeing the Imax version later in the week after the crowds die down.  |  IP: Logged John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-06-2004 02:49 PM                     Five prints. Good quality. No problems.  |  IP: Logged Scott Balko Expert Film Handler Posts: 136 From: Redwood Falls, Minnesota, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 06-06-2004 03:22 PM                     I actually thought that this print had better color and contrast than a lot we've had in past months. Now my print of Day after Tomorrow sucks. Kind of washed out looking and hazy.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-06-2004 03:31 PM                     Dean, what kind of anamorphic attachment are you using? If if is an old anamorphic or something other than Schneider or Isco (or even a new lense coated with oil), you can automatically expect a poor quality picture. Look at the reflection of the porthole glass. If it looks like a milkshake, you can expect poor color temperature and soft focus. It is amazing how many people neglect the porthole glass. While absent from the theater I work, some people really didn't seem to care about how dirty the glass was. The ones who did care used that damned Windex on the glass - which is as worthless as the tits on a boar hog! Some others have not yet figured out that you cannot clean a window with an oily rag. I cleaned the portholes with the industrial stuff I purchased. It took longer to erect and climb the ladder to clean the porthole glass than it did to clean the window. I gave Brad a can of that stuff a long time ago and even cleaned his porthole windows. He will attest to how well it worked. The stuff only costed me 2 bucks for a 19-oz can. One of the girls confiscated the can I had in the booth - and she used it to clean everything. Now I can't seem to keep enough of it on hand. I have 10 more cans in the car - the ony reason I still have them is because I didn't let them lay adrift in the theater.  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-06-2004 09:56 PM                        What exactly is this "industrial window cleaner stuff" and where can I get it? I've never found anything that effectively cleans the inside of my car windows without leaving streaks. I need some of this stuff you're talking about. Theatres here have been too busy for me to see Harry Potter yet. I'll mention the quality of the print I see when I go one night this week. The "reference quality" theatre (Regal River Oaks 8 in Decatur) is not showing HP3, so I'll have to see it in one of the others.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-07-2004 12:30 AM                     Evans, it is marketed my Louis Auto Glass (a local mom and pop enterprise) which operates out of Bellingham, WA. Their number is AFAIK is 360.734.3840. It contains 2-Butoxyethanol (111-76-2), Ethyl Alcohol (64-17-5), Methyl Alcohol (67-56-1), Deionized Water (7732-18-5). It uses LP Petroleum Gas (68476-68-7) as a propellant. I caught on to that stuff when I had Louis replace several windshields in my rolling stock. It is amazing how well it works. Of all the years I spent in the booth, and all the times I scrubbed cigarette haze off the inside of the windshields in conjunction of removing bug goo from the outside, I have found nothing better. The first time you use it, you'll probably have to expend a little effort (about a minute or so) to get 10 years or more of film from other cleansers off the window. After that time, it is a snap! It smells good, too. A nice fresh smell. Maybe that's why the girls like it. I use it for practically everything. It cleans the computer monitor screen from sneeze remnants, greasy finger prints from the monitor, computer cases that have sat in hostile enviroments, you name it.  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-07-2004 10:28 PM                        As promised, comments on the quality of the Harry Potter print I saw. It almost seems that this movie was shot by a bunch of people working independently, since different scenes had different looks. Some scenes looked fine, while others had an "overexposed" look in the bright areas. Some were very soft and dull-looking, while others were fine. I don't think any of these problems were due to the print in the theatre -- but from the source. I saw no defects in the print except for some crap code at one point fairly early in the movie.  |  IP: Logged Ivo Noorlander Film Handler Posts: 20 From: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Registered: Jun 2002 posted 06-08-2004 01:59 PM                     I don't think these things are defects. Harry Potter 3 is a much darker story than the first two installments. Therefor the lighting is moodier than before and the look differs depending on the content of the scene. The film was color graded digitally, so any undesired inconsistency could have been corrected. There is an article on the American Cinematographer web page where cinematographer Michael Seresin discusses the production.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 06-10-2004 10:50 PM                        Re: Glass cleaner Paul, I get a product called KR Reflections from KR Supply out of Seattle. It has pretty much the same makeup... smells good, too. The kids really like it for the popcorn machine and front exit windows.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-11-2004 12:11 AM                     Jack, it does have a nice fresh smell. I wonder if it is the same product? I might be in your area maybe next week, I'll probably bring a can along with me so we can compare notes. Maybe the smell of the stuff is why the girls at Anacortes scoffed it up, too.  |  IP: Logged Phil Blake Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 558 From: esperance western australia Registered: Nov 2003 posted 06-11-2004 03:36 AM                        one of the best glass cleaners I have ever come across is the Amway Crystal clear window cleaner. (no I am not a dealer!) It is the only one I have used with leaving streaks or foggy patches.  |  IP: Logged David Ingalsbe Film Handler Posts: 31 From: Eagan, MN, USA Registered: May 2004 posted 06-14-2004 02:44 AM                     I saw some grain to HP3 but it was not to bad. My big problem has been with the lack of quality checking. I recived two prints that had reels that turned blue after lab splices. This has happened alot lately, 2 prints of troy tured green, 1 print of shrek turned yellow, 1 stepford turned black every revolution of the reel for one hundred feet, and 1 stepford had sproket damage. that's alot of from the lab. With distribution like this who needs enemys  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 06-14-2004 08:57 AM                        "Safelight" fog on color print film is usually blue or cyan in color. Accidental exposure to "white" light usually shows up as a yellow or brown colored fog. If a reel has unacceptable levels of fogging, a replacement should be requested immediately. I wrote a SMPTE technical paper to help laboratories reduce the risk of "safelight" fog: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/illumination/page01.blind  |  IP: Logged

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