geared heads producer

[Michele Gavazzeni]

who is still producing geared head ?
Arri than?
I was thinking about a more compact design compared to the Arri head

 

[redgoat]

Worral is smaller than Arri and Mitchell made a mini version that is much smaller than Arri.

 

[Frank Mirbach]

Any prices for these ? Pictures ?

 

[Michele Gavazzeni]

i'm sure Worral is out of business since years
don't know about Mitchell but it seems they are out too
Used products only.
Some on ebay

 

[Nick Gardner]

The Mini worral is about the same size as the arrihead. Pretty similar specs. Arrihead has the tilt wheel swivel to the right. I believe this was originaly to clear 1k' mags on the BL-4, I may be wrong. Arriheads go for around $20k used. Mini Worral about 4-8$k depnding on condition. Ken Rich currently has 2 mini worrals and I believe a technovison head. The miniworal was made by CP and they are out of buisiness. Many parts are still available, and unless you brake a casting all parts could be made by a competent machinist.

It may be because I own it, and am used to it, but I did a movie with an arrihead right after a long job using my mini Worral, and I liked the Woral better. When they are poorly maintained, they suck, but so do most things.

Cheers,

Nick

 

[Jim McKinney]

I'm very happy with my mini-Worral. Make sure it's in good shape.

 

[Dominic Cochran]

Worral is smaller than Arri and Mitchell made a mini version that is much smaller than Arri.

Hmm, thats odd... I'm the one who posted this but it showed up as this redgoat guy, strange...

 

[Jason Wingrove]

Mini worrall was always nice and simple and light. wouldnt mind one now actually!

think there was an earlier version that had a stop in it on the pan? seem to remember having to always line it up to that. bit of a pain but it think they fixed it with the 2nd model.