On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:20 PM, <nicky.hamlyn_at_talktalk.net> wrote:
> In the early to mid 1980s the BBC replaced all their Arri BL and Angenieux
> 12-120 lens news gathering kits with Aatons and Zeiss Distagon lenses. These
> were used for filming interviews and other banal stuff. A bit like using a
> Ferrari to drive to the corner shop, as we say here!
>
>
>
And those Aaton cameras were then sold by the BBC to photographers who
worked for the BBC, and then on to others like me,
and then on to others....
Kind of amazing how this stuff gets past along.... and that it's still in
use. There is hardly anything like it in industrial and product
cycles today.
By comparison, though I now use a pre-Intel G5 Mac, it will likely need to
be replaced in the next 1-2 years as hardware fails
and as backwards compatibility with the OS and apps becomes more and more
problematic. I bought the computer from its original
owner, and after me it will likely head to the trash heap.
Alain
>
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>
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> From: Steven Gladstone <Steven_at_gladstonefilms.com>
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> Sent: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:02
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Article: The Last film camera
>
> On 10/12/11 1:11 PM, Matt Helme wrote:
> > how many people on Frameworks EVER bought a new Panavision or Aaton camera?
>
> Technically speaking, Panavision NEVER sold their film cameras, you
> could only rent them. In fact Accrding to Arri, Panavision was Arri's
> biggest customer. Panavision did at one time own Aaton (If I recall) but
> that was so they could get the little Aaton Code diode technology,
> Panavision later sold Aaton, again if I recall.
>
> I bought an Aaton way back - around 1998 or so, it was made in the
> 1970's and was a "BBC" camera at one time in its life.
>
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