This past Tuesday I had the privilege of being reacquainted with one of the kindest people I have worked with, 91-year-old Kenji Seumatsu. For those who may not know Kenji, he is one of the most respected optical designers and engineers in the world. He has worked widely in the motion picture and scientific fields, […]
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Introduced in 1973, the Cinema Products CP-16R quickly became one of the most popular 16mm spinning mirror reflex, sound-silent cameras on the market. It features a built-in magnetic sound head for single-system sync sound recording. The camera is small, ergonomic, light weight, and easily portable, ideal for news gathering and documentary, low budget, and student
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Arriflex 35 II C spinning mirror reflex 35mm camera with a custom Nikon hard front conversion and a flatbase with a variable speed motor. The camera comes complete with a 400’ magazine. This camera has been fully cleaned and serviced and is ready to shoot your next project. In 1964, the Arriflex 35 II C
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As a change of pace between other projects, I have been taking a look at the various Bell & Howell Eymax lenses I acquired several years back as part of a lot purchase. I don’t know much of anything about these lenses, but all of the ones I have in stock are in Bell &
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Happy Halloween! To celebrate, we return to the ghost of a project that I never had a chance to finish. Back in the beginning of 2022 I began work on restoring Mitchell Standard #46, one of the oldest Mitchell cameras I have had the “pleasure” to work on. I say this with a grain of
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I am still slowly working on reorganizing the showroom between projects, and I thought I would share with you all this neat stopwatch I keep walking past. The stopwatch was retailed by Birns & Sawyer, a legendary Hollywood equipment rental and manufacturing company, and made for them by an historic German watch maker called Hanhart.
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Arriflex 35 II B spinning mirror reflex 35mm camera with standard three position turret featuring ARRI standard lens mounts and sitting on a Birns & Sawyer flatbase with a variable speed motor. The camera comes complete with a matte box and a non-reversible 400’ magazine. So influential was the Arriflex 35 series of cameras, that
A fascinating new Mitchell camera came into my shop last week. It’s in absolutely horrendous condition, but I have saved cameras in worse shape. This camera is a Mitchell Standard with the silenced gear on the movement and a phenolic bull gear. The camera turned out to be #356, and some quick research told us
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All of the parts for the first six ARRI S/ST power cables have been printed, and the copper electrical ferrules and cable assemblies have been made. I only had time to assemble and test one of them, but here you can see it connected to an ARRI ST and powering the camera. Success! This was
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Anyone who has owned an ARRI S camera of any variety knows that the factory power cable has a long, but limited lifespan, and once it’s no longer usable, it quickly becomes unobtainable. I recently acquired 3 ARRI S cameras, and of course, none of them had power cables. As it was high time for
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