Ahh, the Arriflex...what a great camera. The first time I shot with the SRII I was so knocked out by it that the 2nd AC finally put his hand on my shoulder and said, "Ok, Brendan, we get it, you like the camera."
The Eclair's have their following but they're really awful. The two examples I worked with, one as an AC and the other as a cameraman, were persnickity in operation and loud. With the mics they use today no camera is truly "silent" but the Eclair is a coffee grinder. Now, the Aaton...that's a nice machine. Superb to hand hold and smooth as silk running. Plus, other than the SRIII it had the best viewfinder. Funny how times change, though. Eventually, within my lifetime, even the movie industry will switch over to HD cameras and so much for film there, too. And guys like us, still relatively young, can reminisce with the next generation and say things like, "Yeah, I can remember when we used to have to load film magazines...and check the gate." -Brendan --- Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23/8/06, Brendan MacRae, discombobulated, > unleashed: > > >No, unfortunately. I owned the Beaulieu and had an > >Arri S for a time but no longer. I haven't done any > >movie work in long time. And even then it was all > >semiprofessional stuff. I worked on a few videos > and > >such with decent budgets but it all went into gear, > >food and post-production. It was all good > >experience...unfortunately, that's all it was. > > > >To be honest, I don't miss it much. I met enough > prima > >donnas in that world to last me the rest of my > life. > > > >;-] > > Har! I have a prima donna bullshit filter with added > gain for the real > difficult ones ;-) > > If only I had been born a couple of decades or so > earlier, I would have > been using an Arri now instead of a Sony...... > > *sigh* > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com > _____________________________ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
