Arricam is a
35 mm movie camera
A movie camera (also known as a film camera and cine-camera) is a type of photographic camera that rapidly takes a sequence of photographs, either on an image sensor or onto film stock, in order to produce a moving image to project onto a movie sc ...
line manufactured by
Arri.
Description
It is Arri's flagship sync-sound camera line, replacing the
Arriflex 535
The Arriflex 535 is a movie camera product line created by Arri
The Arri Group () is a German manufacturer of motion picture film equipment. Based in Munich, the company was founded in 1917. It produces professional motion picture cameras, l ...
line. The design was developed by Fritz Gabriel Bauer and Walter Trauninger, and is heavily derivative of the cameras Bauer created for his
Moviecam
Moviecam is a Film, motion picture equipment company specializing in movie camera systems for 35mm movie film, 35 mm film.
History
Originally started in Vienna, Austria as an in-house project of Fritz Gabriel Bauer and Walter Kindler's Moviegro ...
company, which was bought out by Arri in the mid-1990s. As such, the Arricam is a fusion of the mechanical and intuitive design innovations of the Moviecam and the interchangeable accessories and complex electronic integration of the Arriflex. {{As of, 2006, the Arricam is considered, along with the
Panaflex
Panavision has been a manufacturer of cameras for the motion picture industry since the 1950s, beginning with anamorphic widescreen lenses. The lightweight Panaflex is credited with revolutionizing filmmaking. Other influential cameras include th ...
Millennium line, the top sync-sound camera system currently in usage, and is extremely popular amongst bigger budget
feature film
A feature film or feature-length film is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term ''feature film'' originall ...
s.
The line comprises two camera body models, the ST (Studio) and LT (Lite). The Arricam ST is intended as a full-capability camera, including two
camera magazine A camera magazine is a light-tight chamber or pair of chambers designed to hold film and move motion picture film stock before and after it has been exposed in the camera. In most movie cameras, the magazine is a removable piece of equipment.
Many s ...
mounting configurations, whereas the Arricam LT is optimized for smaller, lightweight usage in handheld and
Steadicam
Steadicam is a brand of camera stabilizer mounts for motion picture cameras invented by Garrett Brown and introduced in 1975 by Cinema Products Corporation. It was designed to isolate the camera from the camera operator's movement, keeping th ...
application, with only the option to mount the magazine in the rear position. Both cameras use motorized displacement magazines, have electronic
rotating mirror shutters mounted beneath the film gate (as opposed to beside it, as in
Panavision
Panavision is an American motion picture equipment company founded in 1953 specializing in cameras and lenses, based in Woodland Hills, California. Formed by Robert Gottschalk as a small partnership to create anamorphic projection lenses dur ...
cameras), and contain independently adjustable sprocket pulleys within the camera body.
Movie cameras
Cameras introduced in 2000
category:German inventions