Beaulieu 7008 Cinevideo
8
- This cine camera was shown at Photokina 1986.
- "Thus Beaulieu have enclosed a Sony CCD chip in a sturdy housing and
connected it with a short cable to an electronics package that produces a
video picture from an image focused on the chip surface. This product of the
new Beaulieu Industrie company, called Cinevideo, is intended to be used in
various ways: with a small Videotransfer adaptor fitted to the front of the
Beaulieu 708EL (and probably many other) projectors to allow the transfer of
super 8 rushes to videotape for rough editing and, later, preparation of
soundtracks - or simply for viewing on a TV screen; fitted to the Beaulieu
editing table to permit a larger, brighter image with less film heating (thanks
to a low-power lamp) than normal optical projection; and perhaps more
controversially, their Cinevideo 8 and Cinevideo 16 cameras that, as their
names implies, can be used for both cine and video, either separately or
simultaneously. This is achieved by using new lenses incorporating a beam-splitter
that diverts 30 per cent of the light from the film to the CCD chip in a
housing near the rear of the lens; Angénieux 6-90mm f/1.4 for Super 8,
converting to 9.2-139mm for video, and 12-120mm f/2 for 16mm film and video as
well as a Schneider 18-90mm f/2 Variogon are available for this purpose.
Beaulieu suggest that this arrangement not only allows one camera to be used
to produce film and/or video recordings as desired to suit subsequent
screening requirements, but also to watch or record rehearsals on video before
committing a scene to film; further uses include test-shots and the production
of video 'cutting-copies' at the time of filming. One cannot help wondering
whether these suggestions are really sensible - during 'videofilming' a quite
expensive cine camera is really just being used as reflex viewfinder and
mounting block. However, such a dual system could have advantages when remote
viewfinding may be required - perhaps for wildlife and similar applications.
The Cinevideo lenses are provided with a C-mount or the new, larger Beaulieu
quick-change mount for super 8, and so could be used on existing Beaulieu - or
other suitable relfex - cameras." (excerpts from article of Peter West
Photokina'86, Making Better Movies magazine, United Kingdom, 1986).