We are excited to offer these excellent Kinoptik Apochromat 75mm and 50mm f2 lenses, both in Eclair CM3 mount. Here at CinemaGear, we love to share a little bit of history along with the filmmaking equipment we offer, but much of the history of Kinoptik remains an enigma to us. Kinoptik was a boutique French […]
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In between work on the ARRI BL 2 and other projects, we have been busy rearranging the showroom here at CinemaGear. We seem to do this every year or so as our inventory finds new homes. Here is a quick sneak peak at what it is looking like so far.
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I was taught, when setting the flange focal depth of a camera, the tolerances were +0” -.0002”. The logic behind these tolerances was that any error should be within the layers of the film and not in front of the film. So I have always followed that advice when I set up a camera. When
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When I first got this camera and ran it, everything seemed good, and I had previously used the camera on a Steadicam for a feature film I shot, and all seemed good then as well. Then I had to go spoil everything by trying to check the flange focal depth. This is where it all
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After the two weeks of motor recycling, I wanted to tackle something that only needed a final few things checked out before it was ready for adoption. Or so I thought . . . I acquired this marvelous ARRI 35 BL2 from the collection of MovieTech Studios where I got the chance to shoot with
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