Hello Everyone,
I haven't posted on the forums for a very long time. Now, I think I need help....you're all probably the only people that can possibly relate to what I'm going through now.
For the past year, I've been wanting to experience shooting film and I'm thinking about purchasing one of the Arriflex SR2 or SR3's that have come up on Ebay. Friends have told me I'm crazy for wanting to purchase a camera which shoots on film, especially to spend so much on one. Granted, the two cameras I have are digital and they've helped quite a bit in allowing me to shoot music videos for my friend's band. I don't think I would've been able to do that on film in a timely manner as I have with digital. I bought an old Pentak K1000 last year and I love it for taking photos. I love being able to click the shutter and an image is imprinted onto a frame of film. I love loading the film into the camera. I send it in to be processed and I get the roll back so I can scan it and view the pictures. I can only imagine having this same experience getting back a SPOOL of film and each frame put together creates a moving image. That's just fascinating to me! Ack! I've talked too much, I'll just get to the point. It's midnight and I have to get to bed.
So! Some of the SR2's that show up on Ebay say "Super 16" in the subject. I was thinking, all right! Awesome, I can purchase a Super 16 Arri. But, in doing research, I find that the SR2's are not originally super 16. Then I figure out they have been converted. At first I was hell bent in getting the SR2, but I suppose I'd much rather have one that started out as Super 16 rather than "modified" to be one. As I've read posts around here, who knows how or who converted them or even if they were converted the right away. I'm sure it's probably just as easy as asking the seller. I want to be able to purchase one of these cameras so I can have a hands on experience with them and possibly use them for filming my own shorts in the near future. What do you think? Is it a good idea to at least get one so I can have experience with it? As I'm researching Arri and other brands, I just think about working with them all the time. If I ever have a chance of working on a set around them, that'd be just....I can't describe it.
I already know tomorrow, I'm gonna be asking myself, "what the heck were you thinking, typing all that last night?" haha