Fallingwater on 16mm film | Expired Kodak TRI-X | Bolex Test footage

#16mm #16mmfilm #bolex
My old Bolex Rex 4 16mm camera has been sitting neglected on a shelf for the past 5 + years and so I decided to dust it off to test its working condition. I shot this on a random visit to Fallingwater with an old roll (6+ years unrefrigerated) of Kodak TRI-X. Very happy to see the Bolex seems to be in proper working order and ready for some future films.
Cinematography by Ryan Navazio
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[@proudtobeautistic]

Tri x is by far the best black and white film.

[@francescomussida]

Great Ryan, I love this Kodak film and the 16mm Bolex H16 cameras (I've buy a Rex 5 just one weeks ago!) May I ask you which lens did you use for? Thanks!

[@RyanNavazio]

Thanks! This was mostly shot on a kern vario switar 17-85 f3.5 - one or two shots might be in the kern 25mm 1.4 as well.

[@francescomussida]

@@RyanNavazio Great! Your video has convinced me to purchase a couple of this amazing black and white film.

[@truefilm6991]

Beautiful footage! Registration is rock steady. Exposure looks spot-on. Perhaps you could bring up the midtones just a bit in digital post, if you like that is.

[@RyanNavazio]

thanks! I didn't have much room to do post work on this film because I only had a low quality transfer done.

[@DrNicholasLopez]

I'm in agreement that this is very pretty footage for old film that was not stored for long term storage. Where did you get it developed and transferred?

[@RyanNavazio]

Pro8mm - and it’s a pretty low quality scan….

[@DrNicholasLopez]

@@RyanNavazio I think it being black and white probably helped with the bitrate of the scan tbh, still looks pretty good