Recently, my friend Chris Endicott dropped off this large collection of classic lenses belonging to the late, great Dave Allen for me to clean and restore. For those few of you who may not know of David Allen, he was an amazing stop motion animator, visual effects pioneer, writer, director, and producer. Dave was working […]
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This Arriflex 16 M camera is offered as pictured with a Peter Lisand tripod and fluid head. It also comes complete with a second 400′ magazine, an Angenieux 10-150mm zoom lens, and a variable speed motor. The camera was serviced and run with 200′ of film and is in good working condition. Available now! https://bit.ly/3NprRYP
I am still hard at work on the ShowScan CP65 cameras, and if you aren’t too bored with that, I will show you more details next week. In the meantime, this wonderful collection of lenses, including an amazing trio of Kowa Cine Prominars, found its way to my shop this week. The collection also includes
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There is always a risk in selling something right after it comes into inventory, and the Mitchell 205 was a painful reminder of this. We put the camera on display right as it came in because it’s so pretty, and coincidentally a client came to visit a few days later and fell in love with
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Before I had a chance to inspect the Mitchell 205, a client came to visit my shop, saw the 205, and had to have it. Getting any camera ready to ship to a client is an involved process, particularly for a camera whose condition has not previously been assessed. As you saw in our previous
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The original thought was to convert the Mitchell 205 to PL lens mount. When I discovered that this was impractical, the compromise was to fit the camera with an Angenieux 25-250 zoom lens. This is an older Angenieux zoom that has the unique 1960’s vintage Hollywood look that was found both in feature films and
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New This Week: An Angenieux 25-250mm T3.9 zoom lens in Arriflex Standard mount with the bracketry for a J4 zoom motor. I may have to pull a J4 out of my parts inventory and fit it to this lens. https://bit.ly/3qCzlg7
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