by marop » Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:20 am
Hello Greg,
Good question. I have seen numbers on the blimp that appear to have been cast in. The moderators Camera, you should be able to find photos somewhere on the site, should show this. His is an older camera. I believe it was in the back of the camera along the bottom? I just checked my camera, made in the 1950s, and could not find a number...although it may be there somewhere? Note that typically a non-blimped Mitchell camera will have 3 main parts with the same serial number; the movement, the camera block (the main box that holds the movemen)t, and the āLā base. You may be aware that Mitchell did not make a lot of cameras built from the ground up as a BNCR. Most, like mine, started out as a BNC and then were later converted to reflex by Mitchell and at least one other company. The 2 types of reflex, that I am aware of are; pellicle (a partially reflective mirror which allowed some of the light coming in from the lens to be diverted to the viewfinder, which reduced the light passing to the film and had to be adjusted for by 1/3rd of a stop); and a spinning mirror reflex, like an ARRI. More rare is a BNC that has not been converted, which means it may have came from the military and not an active studio, which would have converted it.
Hope this helps. Ed (Mediaed) may be able to add to this.
Mark
Hello Greg,
Good question. I have seen numbers on the blimp that appear to have been cast in. The moderators Camera, you should be able to find photos somewhere on the site, should show this. His is an older camera. I believe it was in the back of the camera along the bottom? I just checked my camera, made in the 1950s, and could not find a number...although it may be there somewhere? Note that typically a non-blimped Mitchell camera will have 3 main parts with the same serial number; the movement, the camera block (the main box that holds the movemen)t, and the āLā base. You may be aware that Mitchell did not make a lot of cameras built from the ground up as a BNCR. Most, like mine, started out as a BNC and then were later converted to reflex by Mitchell and at least one other company. The 2 types of reflex, that I am aware of are; pellicle (a partially reflective mirror which allowed some of the light coming in from the lens to be diverted to the viewfinder, which reduced the light passing to the film and had to be adjusted for by 1/3rd of a stop); and a spinning mirror reflex, like an ARRI. More rare is a BNC that has not been converted, which means it may have came from the military and not an active studio, which would have converted it.
Hope this helps. Ed (Mediaed) may be able to add to this.
Mark