Arriflex 35 II B spinning mirror reflex 35mm camera with standard three position turret featuring ARRI standard lens mounts and sitting on a Birns & Sawyer flatbase with a variable speed motor. The camera comes complete with a matte box and a non-reversible 400’ magazine. So influential was the Arriflex 35 series of cameras, that […]
A fascinating new Mitchell camera came into my shop last week. It’s in absolutely horrendous condition, but I have saved cameras in worse shape. This camera is a Mitchell Standard with the silenced gear on the movement and a phenolic bull gear. The camera turned out to be #356, and some quick research told us
A Fascinating New Mitchell Camera – Mitchell Standard #356 Read More »
All of the parts for the first six ARRI S/ST power cables have been printed, and the copper electrical ferrules and cable assemblies have been made. I only had time to assemble and test one of them, but here you can see it connected to an ARRI ST and powering the camera. Success! This was
Assembling and Testing the Replacement Power Cable for the ARRI S/ST Read More »
Anyone who has owned an ARRI S camera of any variety knows that the factory power cable has a long, but limited lifespan, and once it’s no longer usable, it quickly becomes unobtainable. I recently acquired 3 ARRI S cameras, and of course, none of them had power cables. As it was high time for
The Elusive ARRI S Power Cable Read More »
The Mitchell KF8 is a 35mm aircraft reconnaissance camera built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. The camera body is based on the design of the Mitchell GC/Standard but adapted to capture high speed reconnaissance motion pictures from the nose cone of an aircraft. The viewfinder and L-base were omitted from the design,
Mitchell KF-8 Aircraft Reconnaissance Camera Read More »
