Robin Miller

After owning a bunch of Millers, O'Connors, and Sachtlers, I'm amazed at the various light-weight fluid head & sticks combos available today for a song. I am doing a shoot-out between a Video Tripod, COMAN KX3636 74 inch 6kg for $136 for a Micro Four-Thirds body with a heavy 8~18mm Leica\Lumix lens and 7in monitor, and a miliboo MTT602II-AL 76 inch 10kg for $189 that supports a ~25lb 800mm f5 Astro-Berlin telephoto. Each has pluses and minor minuses, but either may be suitable for your DSLR-size up to an Alexa movie camera rig. And at these prices, I might just keep both!

Seems to me in today's 16:9 and 1.85 world the "ideal" format would be 35mm 3-perf?

From the Arri 16BL manual, the 1200ft coaxial magazine. Its description, having "the same quick change feature as the 400ft magazine" and ".compactness" became passe with Arri's introduction a few years later of the 16SR. Here in the colonies I tried 7254 but in 16 it was too grainy - "Get Back" benefits from the noise reduction available with today's spot scanning. I switched to 7247 when it was introduced in 1974, and shot an industrial that was among DuArt's first processing it. It and 5247 were the first emulsions with T-grain for low noise.