9.5-mm. film is one year older. 16 has become the universal small-gauge format in 1936, all around the globe. Ten years later with the Mitchell 16 Professional a benchmark was set what concerns cameras. Six years after that with the Arriflex 16 the first mirror-shutter reflex 16-mm. camera came to the market. On the projector side there were fine apparatus around already since the twenties. 16 offers compactness of equipment while maintaining many technical possibilities. I think the choice of optics is the vastest with 16. On my ever-growing list I’m counting 220 models of 16-mm. film cameras. Of course, there are a few not so good ones, too. Stay away from the Zeiss-Ikon Movikon 16. To name one of the best: Bell & Howell Filmo 70
The choice of film stocks is formidable today with the exception of a low-speed fine grain panchromatic black-and-white reversal material, the flavour with which it had begun.
The choice of film stocks is formidable today with the exception of a low-speed fine grain panchromatic black-and-white reversal material, the flavour with which it had begun.
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