The Shooting of Carpe Diem took place from sunrise to sunset on October 7, 1992. We used a Bolex RX-5 (the camera to the left) that Lou Mang, one of my film instructors was kind enough to lend me. As far as I can remember we used an Agenuiex 12-120mm lens for all the shooting, with varying amounts of Neutral Density filtration over the front of the lens to allow us to play with depth of field a little. Additionally, I used 2 85 filters, one for the normal color correction, and one to add that "oh so warm" feel to the film(which is much more evident in the projectable version, I didn't supervise the transfer of this film to video and they removed most of the orange warm feel that the negative was exposed with).
There is one dolly shot early on which was accomplished with a make shift plywood dolly using skateboard wheels and running on PVC Pipe. I actually made up some pretty good blueprints on how to make such a dolly, and I'll put a link here for them when I get a chance. We went through about 450' of film which makes our shooting ratio about 3-1. Carpe Diem was shot entirely on FUJI film (8650 250 tungsten), and I'm a big believer in the quality of the Fuji product....as well as the price. It was, however, printed on Kodak stock....most labs don't have Fuji print stock...but none of this matters to you because what your seeing came straight off the negative. We used Technicolor to process and print, mainly because I didn't know any better. Although the did a good job, they don't have the time to spend on the smaller filmmakers and they are way too expensive. I later migrated to Lab-Link (also on NYC) and Medallian in Toronto. The transfer to tape happened at WRS in Pittsburg, and as I mentioned I'm not really pleased with it(LINK). Well, that's about all that comes to mind right now, and probably more than you wanted to know. If you have any futher questions just e-mail me.