CP-16
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The CP-16, CP-16A, CP-16R, CP-16R/A and CP-16R/DS cameras are 16mm motion picture cameras manufactured by the Cinema Products Corporation
of Hollywood California
. A range of cameras of Auricon
ancestry. They were primarily intended for television news filming and were quite popular with local and national news agencies before the advent of portable videotape Electronic News Gathering
, (ENG) formats, as well as documentary and drama production.
They featured a compact magnesium alloy body, a crystal locked drive system, interchangeable lenses, and a magnetic audio system with a built in mixer that recorded onto special pre-striped (and now discontinued) 16mm single perf magnetic sound film. It accepted both Mitchell and Cinema Products 400 foot film magazines.
The CP-16 series used a special 12-120mm Angenieux zoom lens with a prismatic viewfinder. The CP-16R series used a spinning mirror shutter.
CP-16: non-reflex 180° shutter,'C' lens mount, SEPMAG or COMMAG.
CP-16/A: as above but with integral automatic COMMAG amplifier.
CP-16R: 156° shutter reflex, CP (miniature BNCR) lens mount, SEPMAG
or COMMAG with amplifier separate from camera. Later type has
170° focal plane shutter plus mirror reflex.
CP-16R/A: as CP-16R but with integral COMMAG amplifier.
CP-16R/ADS: as CP-16R but for SEPMAG (double system) sound only.
CP 16s are still often used in small productions and in film schools. Many of these cameras were donated or sold off when news crews adopted videotape.
Cinema Products Corporation
Cinema Products Corporation was an American manufacturer of motion picture camera equipment.-History:The company was formed in 1968 by Ed DiGiulio, a former director and vice-president of the Mitchell Camera Corporation...
of Hollywood California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. A range of cameras of Auricon
Auricon
Auricon cameras are 16 mm film Single system sound-on-film motion picture cameras. Designed to be portable, the camera preceded ENG video cameras as the main AV tool of television news gathering...
ancestry. They were primarily intended for television news filming and were quite popular with local and national news agencies before the advent of portable videotape Electronic News Gathering
Electronic news gathering
ENG is a broadcasting industry acronym which stands for electronic news gathering. It can mean anything from a lone broadcast journalist reporter taking a single professional video camera out to shoot a story, to an entire television crew taking a production truck or satellite truck on location...
, (ENG) formats, as well as documentary and drama production.
They featured a compact magnesium alloy body, a crystal locked drive system, interchangeable lenses, and a magnetic audio system with a built in mixer that recorded onto special pre-striped (and now discontinued) 16mm single perf magnetic sound film. It accepted both Mitchell and Cinema Products 400 foot film magazines.
The CP-16 series used a special 12-120mm Angenieux zoom lens with a prismatic viewfinder. The CP-16R series used a spinning mirror shutter.
CP-16: non-reflex 180° shutter,'C' lens mount, SEPMAG or COMMAG.
CP-16/A: as above but with integral automatic COMMAG amplifier.
CP-16R: 156° shutter reflex, CP (miniature BNCR) lens mount, SEPMAG
or COMMAG with amplifier separate from camera. Later type has
170° focal plane shutter plus mirror reflex.
CP-16R/A: as CP-16R but with integral COMMAG amplifier.
CP-16R/ADS: as CP-16R but for SEPMAG (double system) sound only.
CP 16s are still often used in small productions and in film schools. Many of these cameras were donated or sold off when news crews adopted videotape.