Bolex H16 - Camera

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Model Details

Manual focus 16mm cinema camera introduced by Bolex in 1935. It has three different lens mounts and can accept various finders and accessories. Metal body available in silver with black leatherette.

Shutter: 8, 16, 24, 32, and 64 fps
Size: 215 x 155 x 105 mm
Weight: 2460g

Brand

Bolex

System

C-mount

Lens Option

Interchangeable

Usage

Film

Focus Type

MF Only

Light Meter

No

Camera Style

All Others

C-mount

C-mount is a thread mount (1” in diameter with 32 threads per inch). This mount is commonly used on 8mm & 16mm movie cameras, CCTV cameras, microscopes and in industrial image processing.

Especially the lenses made for video cameras are optically superb and made by manufacturers like Schneider-Kreuznach, Angenieux, Taylor & Hobson, Kern, Canon, Fujfilm etc. C-mount lenses can be mounted on mirrorless cameras with an adapter. Typically cameras have much larger sensors than the lenses were designed for and lenses will vignette on these cameras. As long as the image circle is big enough, the resolution of most C-mount lenses is good enough for digital cameras.