Production Skills - 16mm

Information on Super 16mm. (what we use at University)

• it has a 1.66 aspect ratio
• camera aperture: 12.52 by 7.41 mm (0.493 by 0.292 in)
• projector aperture (full 1.66): 11.76 by 7.08 mm (0.463 by 0.279 in)
• projector aperture (1.85): 11.76 by 6.37 mm (0.463 by 0.251 in)
• 1 perforation per frame, always single perf

The camera only covers standard 16mm so it will still capture in 4:3 rather than 16:9

• 7.62 mm per frame (40 frames per foot)
• 122 m (400 feet) = about 11 minutes at 24 frame/s

Interesting Fact: The Hurt Locker, was shot using Super 16 mm cameras and 16 mm film stocks. The cost savings over 35 mm allowed the production to utilize multiple cameras for many shots which resulted in exposing over 1,000,000 feet of film.