David Sekanina

He actually says it ? And then he explains that by pressing the camera against your cheek, it becomes very stable. He didn't want the viewfinder to protrude much, because he wanted a camera that he can put in his pocket. What a marvelous man!

The picture was taken by Caroline Champetier. I think I found it on the website of the documentary filmmaker who shot 'loeil méchanique', a doc on the development of the A-minima, that I bought a few years ago. Not a cat on the shoulder, but a mouse in the hand ? edit: found the source: https://theasc.com/news/jean-pierre-beauviala-honored-by-the-asc

Jean-Pierre Beauviala with an early Minima prototype, built for 100 foot daylight spools ?

Twenty-five years ago I made large Cibachrome/Ilfchrome prints from 16mm Kodachrome frames shot with my Arriflex16BL. They looked like pointillism paintings by Seurat. But when projected it looked a lot less grainy.

Motion picture film is shot at 24fps. The grain is never at the same place from frame to frame, therefore increasing the perceived resolution when projected at 24fps. As a kid I always wondered why the film stills shown in the cinema entrance were so terribly grainy, while the projection looked great. Until I understood the increased resolution at 24fps.

that makes the mags expensive, requiring a precision pressure plate, rollers and gears to keep the loop etc. That's the beauty of the Aaton A-minima - the mags are very simple.

Internet armchair experts? ?

Ruby / Sapphire roller bearings?

That's for sure.

It's a fast moving industry and I keep getting quotes to compare metal 3D printed parts to low volume lost wax castings and machined parts. But for now it only makes sense for really special geometries or assemblies where you can combine multiple parts and functions into one 3D printed part. The metal powders are already quite expensive, most machines do not have very big build volumes, and it takes a long time to print, then cool down, so in the end it's a simple numbers game - how many parts can you print in a week, how much does the machine cost, what is the life time of the machine. Even the most expensive 5 axis machining centers are way more productive than any 3D printer.

Metal 3D printing results in a quite rough surface finish, unsuitable for a lens adapter. You would have to re-machine the precision surfaces anyways, so it's much cheaper to have it machined from the start. 3D printing makes sense when you have geometries, that cannot be machined and would have to be welded together from multiple parts, like the cooling channels inside the walls of a rocket bell nozzle. There the high cost of a 3D printed metal part is still lower than all the welding that was required with the old method. Even for housings, where a rougher surface finish is acceptable, casting still comes cheaper than 3D metal printing. Both require post machining work anyways.

Oh, you sold your beloved 35III? How come? The recent price increase of film?

Ideally yes. On the other hand they have proven they can build a S8 camera with a rock steady movement with their previous camera. Remember the Digital Bolex campaign? They had a box with a lens and some renderings and managed to get 440 backers pledging 260'000$.

I wish they would have waited longer for potential buyers, or launched a campaign on Kickstarter / Indiegogo which would give the camera more visibility. It felt like the camera was announced and cancelled within a month. Then again, my accuracy for the passing of time is more and more off, the older I get ?

Yes, that will work ?

Thanks for the explanation Tyler.

Tyler, I enjoy your cinema repository episodes, but always wondered about the purplish grade - wondered if it was an aesthetic choice, or if you use some ND that doesn't cut off IR. Would be great if you could correct (just with an overlay text) some errors, like when you talk about 1.5 min run time at 24fps of a S8 cartridge instead of 2.5 mins. (many young filmmakers now flock to your channel, so it's important to get things right)

Congratulations Tommy! ?

If you're based in the US, it's probably easier to get one from AZ or VP. The new tap cannot be installed by the user. If you really want mine bc of the click wheel or any other reason, I can ask Charles Pickel if he's interested in doing the installation. You must have a body with the side video tap port (not all XTR Plus do) and the beam splitter and relay lens installed. ?

Different board, same Sony sensor, same functions.

indeed wonderful news about the pre-orders ?

Lasse's facebook posts: "Rockhopper is a self-blimping camera like the ARRI 416 with PL mount but it’s price is nearly 10x that of Gentoo. anyone can buy but the Rockhopper is an expensive camera which will only be announced next year and most likely deliveries would be fourth quarter 2023 so it’s far out"

here is the thread: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=83050 many of the new cards are not recognized and can't be formatted by the camera. Some found cards that work at certain speeds. This was not worth the hassle for me, so I went with Angelbird, where when you tell them you want cards for this camera, they send you ones that work at all speeds, raw and Prores.

Thank you Dom! Aaton had a patent for the recess in their rotating mirror, so they could move the hard front closer to the film plane.Theoretically you could have lenses that protrude a bit further in that area into the camera than with ARRI cameras, that all have flat mirrors from center to outer diameter. But lens makers stuck to ARRI's norm. Image by Charles Pickel

Silly me, they probably used the 45 degree limit line because of the ARRI 35 II and III, which had their mirror sideways, tilted at 45 degrees.