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Fig. 1 — Now Eclair 16mm camera design provides solid support for hand-held shooting.
Fig. 2 — Unorthodox in design but easy to carry.
Fig. 3 — Duol-spool magazine includes film movement.
r'g, 4 — Eclair camera motors are interchangeable.
REPORT FROM
Growing importance of professional 16mm film production reflected in design and innovations of new cameras shown at Photokina-’63.
By HANS KOEBNER
Munich, Germany
^he professional cinematographic equipment displayed at Photo¬ kina-1963, concluded recently in Cologne, reflected the growing importance of 16mm in the production of industrial, commercial and television films. It also reflected the special attention to both design and performance which manufacturers have given their equipment to meet the need for compact, functional and lighter-weight cameras. While the Photokina exhibits were not limited to cameras alone, it is with the new or improved professional 16mm cameras displayed which this report is concerned.
Arri had all its camera equipment on display in its booth, includ¬ ing the new Arriflex 16M, which is a mirror-shutter reflex camera designed to take external film magazines. The provision for 100-ft. internal film loads, found in the earlier Arri 16, has been eliminated in favor of a more compact camera box, which will accommodate 200-ft., 400-ft., and 1200-ft. magazines. A built-in sync-signal gen¬ erator simplifies the camera’s use for 16mm sound-film production with remotely operated tape recorders.
Also new was such Arri equipment and accessories as the feather¬ weight blimp (Fig. 6). Designed especially for the 16M, the blimp is constructed of plastic layers, weighs but 13 kg. (about 29 lbs.), and may be had in black, white or a range of colors.
New, also, for the Arri 16M was the 300-meter (about 1000-ft.) casette — a single compartment film magazine in which the film rolls are mounted side-by-side. Pictured in Fig. 5, the casette weighs 4.2 kg. (about 3 lbs.).
Considerable attention was focused on the Zeiss retrofocus Mirotar 1, a 500mm f/4.5 lens which can be used with either the Arriflex 16 or Arriflex 16M. It weighs 4.4 kg. (about 3 lbs.) and requires a special cradle for support before the camera, as may be seen in Fig. 7.
A truly brand new entry in the Photokina display this year was the new Eclair 16mm professional camera from France, (Figs. 1 to 4 inch). Highly unorthodox in design, the camera nevertheless has excellent balance for hand-held operation. Among its many features are the facility for quick interchange of electric motors of different speeds and voltage requirements, a detachable film magazine, a syncsignal generator, and two-lens rotary turret.
Fig. 1 is side view of the camera, showing how both the magazine and motor rest on operator’s shoulder to give solid support for hand¬ held shooting. The white disk (there’s one on either side of the mag¬ azine) is for making pencil notations, etc., relative to the film con tent. The zoom lens — a 12-120mm — is from Angenieux.
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AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER, JUNE, 1963