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Tachometer - A gauge on
a camera measuring the film speed when the camera is running.
Tail - The end of a shot or a roll is called the
tail.
Tail Slate - Sometimes it is
necessary to mark a shot at the end rather than at the beginning. When
this is done it is called a tail slate. It is customary to call “Tail
Slate!” just before clapping the slate, so that the person syncing the
film does not get confused. To easily distinguish a tail slate, the slate
is held upside down when marking the shot.
Take
- Multiple versions of the same shot are called takes.
Take Up Reel - An empty reel, used on a projector
to gather up the film after it has passed through the movement.
Take Up Spool - An empty spool in a camera used to
gather up the film after it has passed through the movement.
The Taking Lens - On a turret, the lens that is
actually in front of the gate, producing an image on the film.
Tape Splice - A method of joining two pieces of
film so they can be projected as one continuous piece. Tape splices are
used in the editing stage. To cut the negative Cement
Splices are used.
Telecine - A
machine for transferring film to video.
Telephoto - Used as an equivalent to Long
Lens, but for those who wish to be overly exact, a telephoto lens
is a long lens that is physically shorter than its focal length.
3,200K - 3,200K is the color temperature of Tungsten.
Tie-In Kit - A device for bypassing the fuse box and
electrical wiring of a location by tapping power directly from the
mains.
Tight Wind - A handy attachment
sometimes found on an editing bench on the right rewind, used to wind film
onto a core and giving it a very smooth edge. It can be quicker than
opening and tightening split reels if you are just rewinding an entire
roll.
Tight Wind Hub - A tight wind is
useless without it. This is the hub that holds a core on the spindle of a
rewind.
Tilt - A vertical camera move on an
axis, up or down. Not to be used interchangeably with pan. It is not
really correct to say “pan up” or “pan down,” when you really mean
tilt.
Time Lapse - Time lapse is when
single frame shooting is used to dramatically speed up the action over the
course of a long period of time. Typically it is a process where a single
frame is shot after a consistent pause. It could be one frame every ten
seconds, or one frame every hour, and such.
Timed Print - Unlike a One
Light Print, this is a print where the timer has gone through and
timed every shot.
Timer - The person at the
lab who goes through your film, shot by shot and selects the printing
lights.
Timing - The lab’s process of
selecting printing lights to for the proper redition of exposure and color
when making a print. The term is a little consuing, as it has nothing at
all to do with “time” as in “running time” or such.
Timing Lights or Printing Lights - These
are the lamps of the contact printer at the lab. Their brightness can be
controlled, which is measured in a scale of 1 to 50, 1 being the darkest
and 50 the brightest. In color there are three lights used together: Red -
Green - Blue. When working with negative it is worth remembering that the
values are reversed: the brighter the light, the darker the print will
be.
Timing Report - A list of the
timing lights and corresponding footages the lab used in making your
print. The timing report can be very helpful for analyzing the footage and
judging the possibilities of further corrections. Any serious problems
with the footage (out of focus, scratches, edge fog, etc.) are usually
also noted on the timing report.
Tone -
1.: A 1,000 Hz sine wave used at the beginning of a tape to provide
consistent volume when transferring sound. 2.: Room
Tone.
Tracking Shot - A
tracking shot is one where the camera is placed on a dolly and is moved
while filmming. Also known as a dolly shot.
Trims - Trims are outtakes of a few frames, usually a
foot or less. To keep them from getting lost they are usually stored
separately from longer outtakes, either in their own vault box or in a
trim book.
Trim Bin or Editing Bin or
Bin - A trim bin is a bin on wheels lined with a fabric bag and
topped off with a frame with a row pins on which to hang film while
editing. Oddly enough, a trim bin is not used for trims, which are small,
but for selects and outtakes. Not to be confused with a waste
basket!
Tripod Head - The part of the
tripod with the pan and tilt mechanism to which the camera is
attached.
T-Stop - Similar to an F-Stop,
some lenses, particularly zoom lenses, will have f-stops on one side of
the aperture ring and t-stops on the other. To differentiate the two, the
t-stops will be red and the f-stops white. T-stops are used in place of
f-stops for setting exposure. Lenses with a lot of glass elements will
often lose a little bit of light. The t-stops are calibrated to the actual
amount of light that is hitting the film, rather than arrived at
mathematically, as is the case with f-stops. However, the f-stops
are still relevant, because while the t-stop should be used to set the
exposure, the resulting f-stop will indicate how much Depth
of Field you have.
Tungsten - The
color temperature of artificial light which is 3,200K on the color
temperature scale. Quartz
Lights use a tungsten filament, which burns at 3,200K, and gives
us this term. Color film for indoor shooting is balanced for tungsten
light, otherwise the image would appear orange in hue. If tungsten
balanced film is used out-of-doors without a correction filter the image
will have a washed-out blue hue.
Turret - A
rotating lens mount allowing for the mounting of three or sometimes four
lenses on a camera, allowing for the quick change from one lens to
another. Only one is in use at any given time, and this is known as the
taking lens.
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