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List your Top 5 Favorite Movie Cameras

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Davide B.

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You can base your list on nostalgia or functionality. I just wanted to see what cameras provoke the fondest memories on these boards.

Here are mine:

1. Panasonic DVX100 (i love shooting in low light)
2. Krasnogorsk K-3 (my first non-super 8 film camera)
3. Yashica Super 8mm (really fun to use and still retro-chic)
4. Aaton XTR (that wooden hand-grip is so classy)
5. Bolex H16 (because working on School of Visual Arts student films kept me fed for a summer)
 
Arriflex BL-1 with the bands to see the focus marks.

Starcam:angry03:

Auricon

Ultracam
 
Kodak Brownie Funsaver Regular8 (my 1st movie camera)
Minolta Pocket Z8 (early ancestor of Scarlet, I hope)
Sony Video8 CCD-C3 (my 1st one-piece camcorder)
Sony FX1 HDV
Eclair Cameflex CM3 (my only 35mm/16mm movie camera)
 
What's the starcam? Bob, The CM3 is a beautiful camera.
 
1. Beaulieu 7008 (Super-8)
2. Arri 16 SR2 / Tie with Aaton XTR
3. Arri 3-III (MOS)
4. Any Bolex or Arri 16 S/B
5. Ikegami HL-791 (Plumbicon tube camera) and Sony BVP-90 (Yeah, I know they're video)
 
What kind of meaningless survey is it?
 
ARRI 535.
(A True noisy masterpiece. I do not know of anyone buying it for home use. On the other hand, People buy RED for home use!)
 
And what kind of a leading question is that?

I posted this to get an idea of the type of design, user interface and functionality that people prefer in a camera. I found it interesting that most people on a forum about a new digital video camera prefer the classic film camera design above all else. For you guys who like the Red more would you prefer if it were fashioned like a film camera, with faux-analog controls covering the digital functions? I believe the Kinetta aimed for that style.

Of course, it's almost as easy for me to find a justification for this thread as for you to find it pointless:
"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for every thing one has a mind to do--" Benjamin Franklin
 
1)Red One
2)could be Scarlet ???
2)SI-2K P&S
3)Genesis
4)EX1
5)now Panasonic HVX200, could be AG-HMC 150

Peace
Bruno
 
Sony PD-150 fastest gun in the west, a true low light affordable camera. Turn on and record.
From the wonderful family of the VX series.
Could shoot with a candle as a light source.

Sony D55 - D35 WS work horses. BSP and DIGI baby

Arri 435 long hard days.

HVX-200 sweet codec P2s great to work with. Again something affordable.

DVX-100 changed a few things in my life.
 
Of course it is now RED but I've shot with every one of these . . .

1. Mitchell Standard - as revolutionary in it's day as RED is today.
2. Arri S - tough workhorse
3. Arri 16BL - First self blimped camera - shot with the first one in US
4. Panaflex - just great to work with
5. F900 CineAlta - started bridging the gap to film

I picked these not because of features but because they reliably got the job done time after time - you could count on them.
 
Arri 435, but here in Thailand, the magazine are not always well maintained. Got this squeaky noise, like your flip flops walking around.
 
1. RED ONE
2. Scarlet when it comes out. boy is RED heavy.
3. ARRI 535
4. Canon XL-1... best viewfinder + shoulderheld camera ever... i really liked this camera.
5. Canon XH-A1... i dont like the CA... and where they put that darned lcd.
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Norseman
 
In no particular order:


Red one - 4k, 120 fps - hard drive recording, nice solid build, nice movie look.
Arri 435 - great for slo mo
PV Millenium - big but sync plus 50 fps is good in a film camera
Moviecam - nice overall package - everything fits together
PV Genesis - nice fast chip - filmy look
Arri D20 - because it has 4.4.4 and was the first digital film camera I'll include it - at an ISO level though it is horrible (somewhere around 25) - the Ray Charles of cameras.

And my least fav?

Phantom - no latitude and requires tons of light. Last gig I did on this mother we hit f256 on the meter. Subtlety goes out the window when the gaffer is likely to catch fire adjusting a stand.

Sony f900 - a disaster - no two cameras look alike. too many variables in setup that can go wrong or change - noisy fan which couldn't be turned off - moiring issues in some cameras - looks like digibeta - needs thousands of stacked batteries out the back to run properly. In a word? Shite.
 
jtm said:
Arri D20 - because it has 4.4.4 and was the first digital film camera I'll include it - at an ISO level though it is horrible (somewhere around 25) - the Ray Charles of cameras.

And my least fav?

Phantom - no latitude and requires tons of light. Last gig I did on this mother we hit f256 on the meter. Subtlety goes out the window when the gaffer is likely to catch fire adjusting a stand.

Sony f900 - a disaster - no two cameras look alike. too many variables in setup that can go wrong or change - noisy fan which couldn't be turned off - moiring issues in some cameras - looks like digibeta - needs thousands of stacked batteries out the back to run properly. In a word? Shite.
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LOL! I love it.
 
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