Geffen Avraham

My original BMPCC died after a few months. They sent me a replacement and it has been working great for over 10 years.

will processing for this be just c41?

sadly, f900 was not yet up to the task it was given. the f950 used on episode 3 was much better, but lucas was dissatisfied with panavision's 3-chip anamorphics, and shot it spherically - meaning it had to be cropped down to 818p in post. Revenge of the Sith's native resolution is 1920 x 818. The first digital camera that was worthy of Lucas's vision was the F35. Its 6K striped sensor can still outperform a Red Komodo today, and pairs easily with the C-series.

By the way, thanks to a post here from @Charlie Peich, I was able to track down a photo of the elusive Wilcam W-4 from AC, Feb 1983.

That's amazing. Do you by any chance have a picture of the Lightweight 870? I'm curious if, in theory, a blimp could be created for it. Even if the blimp was double the weight of the camera, it would still be lighter than an Arri 765.

Also, does Iwerks still have the lightweight 22-pound 8/70 MSM camera? I love this forum, you'll post a link to an article and the fellow from the article will show up!

That's amazing. How many Iwerks 15/70 cameras are there? Did they ever achieve 60fps capability? Do you have any pictures of the rehoused Hasselblad lenses? How did you acquire this one? Is it available for rent?

According to LFExaminer, the Iwerks 1570 camera was originally contracted to Cinema Products, who started with a Williamson (Wilcam) movement, but ended up heavily modifying it. https://lfexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/LFX-V04N02.pdf

I have found no pictures from this camera, but a magazine from it is currently found on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/256389495557

The February 1993 edition of the ASC magazine mentions a series of cameras offered by MSM Design, the company of Martin S Mueller. It mentions the 8812 VistaVision camera, the 8870 8-perf 65mm Iwerks camera, and the 9801 IMAX camera. There is, however, a fourth camera mentioned as well: the 5815, which is described as "65mm, 5, 8, and 15 per 1 fps". This confuses me a bit. Is this truly a 65mm camera with variable pulldown between 5, 8, and 15 perf formats - that can only shoot 1 frame per second? What could possibly be the purpose of this camera? The only application I can guess is Ron Fricke, who used custom 65mm time-lapse cameras for Baraka. Then why the variable format? I was under the impression that Baraka was all 5-perf.

https://archive.org/details/asc-1993-american-cinematographer-manual.pdf/ Here you can find more information about these cameras, as well as the Wilcam VistaVision systems. I did not know, for instance, that Wilcam designed the CP-65 Showscan camera.

And this is the Fries 865, which I had previously heard of:

The 7th edition of the ASC manual does not mention 1570, but it does provide interesting information about 870 cameras. Here is the MSM 8870, 8 perf 65mm camera. Presumably this was the one used by Iwerks.

If the contrast will present an issue, the Sony ECX344A is a 3.5K x 4K micro-OLED currently shipping for about $1,000. 5000 nits if I'm not wrong, and about the size of a 35mm film frame.

have you also acquired one? i'm going to try and make a new film recorder for it with a 16k LCD used on SLA printers, and perhaps an RGB LED light source. In theory should be able to improve time per frame quite a bit over the old CRT recorders, and record directly to inexpensive(ish) 2383 print film