Help Picking s16mm Camera

[Tennent McCabe]

I'm very familiar with s8mm camera's but have never used a 16mm before. I just need something that is a fair price and performance. Any ideas?

 

-T

[Charles MacDonald]

I'm very familiar with s8mm camera's but have never used a 16mm before. . Any ideas?

search the forums where this topic has been discussed at great lenth over the last few years, and then come back with some specific questions..

[Sean Morris]

I'm very familiar with s8mm camera's but have never used a 16mm before. I just need something that is a fair price and performance. Any ideas?

 

-T

 

 

Please look at the forums before posting, this has been discussed about a billion times before on this forum

 

http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004/in...showtopic=26706

 

Sean

[Matt Pacini]

"fair price and performance" is so general as to be no help at all in answering the question.

 

For one person, that may mean $900.

For someone else, $20K

And for performance, you have to state your specific needs.

 

MP

[Michael Lehnert]

Read through those threads which were just on the second page of this sub-forum:

 

http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004/in...showtopic=26788

 

http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004/in...showtopic=26836

 

http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004/in...showtopic=26706

 

http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004/in...showtopic=26851

 

 

To cut it short:

 

Speaking from a Super 8 perspective, if you want a morph between a Panavision Panaflex 16 "Elaine" and a Beaulieu 4008 ZM II, I recommend to go on the quest to track down a Bolex 16 Pro. Great camera, utterly underrated, superior to Arriflex 16 SR-series excl. the Advanced (which isn't too difficult, after all ? oh, I see anger in the eyes of many readers already...).

The Arriflex 416 is greatly inspired by several design aspects of it which are still now new to Municams.

 

An Aaton X-series is probably out of your budget, but should be the starting point for a modern 16mm production camera (even the one three decades old L-series qualifies somewhat for that).

 

Furthermore, re. shoulder cameras: Eclair ACL, then Aaton LTR, then Eclair NPR, then Arriflex 16 SR-series. Also consider: Cinema Products CP-16 or GSMO.

 

Furthermore, re. handheld cameras: Arriflex 16 BL, Arriflex 16 St, Bolex H16, Beaulieu R16. Also consider: Bell & Howell.