List your Top 5 Favorite Movie Cameras

[Davide B.]

You can base your list on nostalgia or functionality. I just wanted to see what cameras provoke the fondest memories on these boards.

Here are mine:

1. Panasonic DVX100 (i love shooting in low light)
2. Krasnogorsk K-3 (my first non-super 8 film camera)
3. Yashica Super 8mm (really fun to use and still retro-chic)
4. Aaton XTR (that wooden hand-grip is so classy)
5. Bolex H16 (because working on School of Visual Arts student films kept me fed for a summer)

[Shawn Booth]

1. RED ONE
2. ARRI 535
3. ARRI 235
4. Panavision GII
5. Moviecam SL

[Matt Sconce]

Dvx100b
HVX200
Red One

[Panamyass]

Arriflex BL-1 with the bands to see the focus marks.

Starcam:angry03:

Auricon

Ultracam

[Bob England]

Kodak Brownie Funsaver Regular8 (my 1st movie camera)
Minolta Pocket Z8 (early ancestor of Scarlet, I hope)
Sony Video8 CCD-C3 (my 1st one-piece camcorder)
Sony FX1 HDV
Eclair Cameflex CM3 (my only 35mm/16mm movie camera)

[Davide B.]

What's the starcam? Bob, The CM3 is a beautiful camera.

[Matthew Greene]

1. Beaulieu 7008 (Super-8)
2. Arri 16 SR2 / Tie with Aaton XTR
3. Arri 3-III (MOS)
4. Any Bolex or Arri 16 S/B
5. Ikegami HL-791 (Plumbicon tube camera) and Sony BVP-90 (Yeah, I know they're video)

[gdv]

What kind of meaningless survey is it?

[chuckt]

ARRI 535.
(A True noisy masterpiece. I do not know of anyone buying it for home use. On the other hand, People buy RED for home use!)

[Davide B.]

And what kind of a leading question is that?

I posted this to get an idea of the type of design, user interface and functionality that people prefer in a camera. I found it interesting that most people on a forum about a new digital video camera prefer the classic film camera design above all else. For you guys who like the Red more would you prefer if it were fashioned like a film camera, with faux-analog controls covering the digital functions? I believe the Kinetta aimed for that style.

Of course, it's almost as easy for me to find a justification for this thread as for you to find it pointless:
"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for every thing one has a mind to do--" Benjamin Franklin