Brian Drysdale Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Jean-Pierre Beauviala has died, he was 82. Designer of the Aaton, he was man who kept improving his cameras. https://vimeo.com/86334994 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregg MacPherson Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 What an amazing guy he was. A while back I saw a doco on youtube on him designing the penelope. He was a very inspiring man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd Anderson Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Very sadden to hear this. But what a fulfilling life he must have lived. It will be very difficult for me to ever sell my Aaton cameras, as they are such beautiful machines. Does anyone know of the "dragonfly" project that he was working on and how close that was to being completed and/ or realized? If my understanding was correct, it was a very small (documentary?) camera — digital as I recall — that he was working on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tyler Purcell Posted April 11, 2019 Premium Member Share Posted April 11, 2019 Yea it's sad news. It's especially sad for me because I have friends who know him and was going to meet him at one point. Being a huge Aaton fan and owner, to see the designer die is kinda like seeing Beethoven die to a music lover. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Michael Lehnert Posted April 11, 2019 Premium Member Share Posted April 11, 2019 Very saddening to read this all of a sudden. But JPB – one of those few who successfully combined being an engineer, and inventor, and entrepreneurs – immortalised himself with a family of products that are ingenious things of beauty, while allowing others to create with them Cinéma Vérité and Direct Cinema documentaries that manifestly progressed le septième art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Sekanina Posted April 11, 2019 Premium Member Share Posted April 11, 2019 Very sad to hear. Bought a mint XTR prod two months ago to upgrade from my LTR 7. Such a brilliantly engineered piece of art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Krumlauf Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Breaks my heart to hear he's gone. Aaton is one of my all time favorite companies. the 35-III i think was one of the best 35mm cameras ever made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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