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CinemaGear.com Since 1999, CinemaGear.com has provided the motion picture and collector markets with antique, vintag

Since 1999, CinemaGear.com has provided the motion picture and collector markets with antique, vintage, and historic motion picture film equipment. We offer a full range of restoration services, from simple clean-up and mechanical repair to total restoration. CinemaGear.com also offers a variety of research services to establish the history and provenance of motion picture cameras and equipment.

06/03/2026

Now available: a wonderful example of the Cine Kodak Special II 16mm camera. The Cine Kodak Special II is one of the most extraordinary cameras of its time, sturdy, reliable, feature-rich, and with an extremely long run time. Its predecessor, the original Cine Kodak Special 16mm spring motor driven camera was introduced in 1933 to appeal to the expanding 16mm educational, industrial, commercial, scientific, and amateur markets. It used swappable magazines that held 100’ or 200’ of film, and featured a two-position turret with interchangeable lenses. Building on the success of the original Cine-Kodak Special, the Cine-Kodak Special II was introduced in 1948. It featured a divergent 2-lens turret that kept the lenses from interfering with each other as they could in the earlier model. The camera used Kodak's new Type-S lens mount, intended to be a universal lens mount for all of Kodak's cine cameras. Kodak went to special trouble to improve the camera’s turret, the lens mounts, and the shutter control system in an effort to make the camera more robust and appealing for the scientific and technical markets. This example comes with an original case and two 100’ magazines. Four lenses are included: a 25mm Kodak Cine Ektar, a 38mm Kodak Anastigmat, a 63mm Kodak Cine Ektar, and a 102mm Kodak Cine Ektar. Available now: https://ln.run/qAh1w

Now available: a wonderful example of the Cine Kodak Special II 16mm camera. The Cine Kodak Special II is one of the mos...
06/03/2026

Now available: a wonderful example of the Cine Kodak Special II 16mm camera. The Cine Kodak Special II is one of the most extraordinary cameras of its time, sturdy, reliable, feature-rich, and with an extremely long run time. Its predecessor, the original Cine Kodak Special 16mm spring motor driven camera was introduced in 1933 to appeal to the expanding 16mm educational, industrial, commercial, scientific, and amateur markets. It used swappable magazines that held 100’ or 200’ of film, and featured a two-position turret with interchangeable lenses. Building on the success of the original Cine-Kodak Special, the Cine-Kodak Special II was introduced in 1948. It featured a divergent 2-lens turret that kept the lenses from interfering with each other as they could in the earlier model. The camera used Kodak's new Type-S lens mount, intended to be a universal lens mount for all of Kodak's cine cameras. Kodak went to special trouble to improve the camera’s turret, the lens mounts, and the shutter control system in an effort to make the camera more robust and appealing for the scientific and technical markets. This example comes with an original case and two 100’ magazines. Four lenses are included: a 25mm Kodak Cine Ektar, a 38mm Kodak Anastigmat, a 63mm Kodak Cine Ektar, and a 102mm Kodak Cine Ektar. Available now: https://ln.run/qAh1w

06/02/2026

In 1973, when the CP-16R was introduced, it became one of the most popular 16mm cameras on the market. This camera is designed to be spinning mirror reflexed, self-blimped and sound-silent, and features a built-in magnetic sound head for single-system sync sound recording, all built into an ergonomic, light weight, portable camera body that is ideal for news gathering and documentary filmmaking. The CP-16 series of cameras makes use of a modified version of the much-respected, always reliable Bach-Auricon style film transport for rock steady images and precise sound-on-film recording. Because of its silent operation and compact size, the CP-16R also found its way into many student and low budget feature films. This camera package comes complete with two 400’ magazines, an Angenieux 12-120mm T2.2 zoom lens, a custom CP battery eliminator with 4-pin XLR power connector and power cable, a Peter Lisand Ultra 1 Fluid Head with dual pan handles, and a Peter Lisand all-aluminum tripod with built-in spreader. This is an ideal shooting package for documentary, student, and low budget feature filmmakers because of its compact size and quiet operation. Available now! https://ln.run/tx4qv

06/01/2026

Offered here is one of the finest motion picture film cameras ever made, the ARRICAM ST. This particular ARRICAM ST is factory brand new. It has only been out of the original Arriflex factory boxes 3 times in its life and it has never had a single frame of film shot through it. The ARRICAM ST was introduced in 2000 and, along with the ARRICAM LT, were the last silent studio film cameras ARRI released. This ARRICAM ST camera is a 35mm 4 perf sync sound camera with an electronic shutter capable of framerates from 1 to 60 fps. This package includes a factory new Studio Universal Viewfinder with both spherical and anamorphic optics, the Studio zoom long extension eyepiece, the ARRICAM Studio integrated video system (IVS), the ARRICAM Dual Port Adapter, ARRICAM Ground Glass, and ARRICAM Studio Mask Frameglow. Also included are the following previously owned serviced and tested accessories: ARRICAM 24 Volt power cable (KC-20), ARRICAM Lite Universal Eyepiece, ARRICAM heated eyecup with cable, 2 ARRICAM 120/400 Studio Magazines with cases, 2 ARRICAM 300/1000 Studio magazines with cases, and a custom Innerspace camera case with wheels and handle. This absolutely stunning camera package is available now. https://ln.run/qc4Kk

Offered here is one of the finest motion picture film cameras ever made, the ARRICAM ST. This particular ARRICAM ST is f...
06/01/2026

Offered here is one of the finest motion picture film cameras ever made, the ARRICAM ST. This particular ARRICAM ST is factory brand new. It has only been out of the original Arriflex factory boxes 3 times in its life and it has never had a single frame of film shot through it. The ARRICAM ST was introduced in 2000 and, along with the ARRICAM LT, were the last silent studio film cameras ARRI released. This ARRICAM ST camera is a 35mm 4 perf sync sound camera with an electronic shutter capable of framerates from 1 to 60 fps. This package includes a factory new Studio Universal Viewfinder with both spherical and anamorphic optics, the Studio zoom long extension eyepiece, the ARRICAM Studio integrated video system (IVS), the ARRICAM Dual Port Adapter, ARRICAM Ground Glass, and ARRICAM Studio Mask Frameglow. Also included are the following previously owned serviced and tested accessories: ARRICAM 24 Volt power cable (KC-20), ARRICAM Lite Universal Eyepiece, ARRICAM heated eyecup with cable, 2 ARRICAM 120/400 Studio Magazines with cases, 2 ARRICAM 300/1000 Studio magazines with cases, and a custom Innerspace camera case with wheels and handle. This absolutely stunning camera package is available now. https://ln.run/qc4Kk

05/31/2026

Now that the work on Mitchell Standard #46 is FINALLY complete, I am catching up on a lot of little projects that have been happening in the background. Final pictures and the listing for Mitchell 46 are still in the works. In the meantime, the one project that has been taking up the most precious bench space is this really wonderful Universal Panoramic and Tilting Head Tripod. The pan head and one of the wooden legs were restored a few months back. Now I am working on remaking four of the twelve leg lock assemblies as they were hopelessly fused together and not repairable. The leg locks are an ingenious arrangement of a steel hoop that fits around the wooden section of a tripod leg, and has attached to it, essentially, a screw and a nut. When the screw is turned, the nut squeezes the leg section together to lock it in place. The flaw in the design of these particular leg locks is that the screw and the nut are both made of brass, and when you use similar materials to interfit, it is usually just a matter of time before they become fused together because of dirt, corrosion, or both. To avoid this problem in the future, I will machine the replacement screw parts of these assemblies from steel and the nut section from brass. An unusual aspect of these particular parts is that they are left-hand threaded. Once I have machined the replacement parts for these four leg locks, this tripod will be complete and available to compliment a camera once more. https://ln.run/ttavN

Now that the work on Mitchell Standard #46 is FINALLY complete, I am catching up on a lot of little projects that have ...
05/31/2026

Now that the work on Mitchell Standard #46 is FINALLY complete, I am catching up on a lot of little projects that have been happening in the background. Final pictures and the listing for Mitchell 46 are still in the works. In the meantime, the one project that has been taking up the most precious bench space is this really wonderful Universal Panoramic and Tilting Head Tripod. The pan head and one of the wooden legs were restored a few months back. Now I am working on remaking four of the twelve leg lock assemblies as they were hopelessly fused together and not repairable. The leg locks are an ingenious arrangement of a steel hoop that fits around the wooden section of a tripod leg, and has attached to it, essentially, a screw and a nut. When the screw is turned, the nut squeezes the leg section together to lock it in place. The flaw in the design of these particular leg locks is that the screw and the nut are both made of brass, and when you use similar materials to interfit, it is usually just a matter of time before they become fused together because of dirt, corrosion, or both. To avoid this problem in the future, I will machine the replacement screw parts of these assemblies from steel and the nut section from brass. An unusual aspect of these particular parts is that they are left-hand threaded. Once I have machined the replacement parts for these four leg locks, this tripod will be complete and available to compliment a camera once more. https://ln.run/ttavN

05/30/2026

I am looking forward to beginning my work on restoring this really cool old tripod. According to the advertising I have seen, this is a Universal Panoramic and Tilting Head Tripod that was introduced by the Universal Camera Company of Chicago around 1915. The ad you see here was published 110 years ago yesterday in “The Moving Picture World”. The tripod had obviously been stored in a garage or some place that was not climate controlled or protected from humidity. Every surface, every nut, every bolt, every screw, every gear, suffers from some amount of corrosion. Fortunately, most of it is surface level, but it meant that the pan tilt head needed to be completely taken apart. This unit has the traditional wooden legs with steel points at the ends, clearly meant to be used in the field. The legs are attached to a heavy metal casting. The pan section is then bolted to that casting with three brass hex-head bolts, and the tilt section is separately mounted to the pan section. One of the first things I noticed was that the tilt section registers to the pan section using two dowel pins, and a bolt passes through the bottom of the tripod and pan section into the tilt section to keep all three parts together. When I was playing with this, I noticed that the bottom of the hole that this center bolt goes through is threaded, so it seemed likely that, sometime in its life, a captured screw went through this hole so that you could easily take the tilt head off the tripod in one piece. I don’t know what the original looked like, but I made a replacement to restore this functionality. After taking the legs off, I then pulled apart both the pan and tilt sections, cleaned for dirt, grease, and rust, and got some sections ready to be painted. The wooden legs need to be sanded, cleaned, reglued, stained and refinished, and made ready to go back on the tripod. All the brass parts that lock the legs into position needed to be ultrasonically cleaned and have some minor repairs done. https://ln.run/dl194

I am looking forward to beginning my work on restoring this really cool old tripod. According to the advertising I have ...
05/30/2026

I am looking forward to beginning my work on restoring this really cool old tripod. According to the advertising I have seen, this is a Universal Panoramic and Tilting Head Tripod that was introduced by the Universal Camera Company of Chicago around 1915. The ad you see here was published 110 years ago yesterday in “The Moving Picture World”. The tripod had obviously been stored in a garage or some place that was not climate controlled or protected from humidity. Every surface, every nut, every bolt, every screw, every gear, suffers from some amount of corrosion. Fortunately, most of it is surface level, but it meant that the pan tilt head needed to be completely taken apart. This unit has the traditional wooden legs with steel points at the ends, clearly meant to be used in the field. The legs are attached to a heavy metal casting. The pan section is then bolted to that casting with three brass hex-head bolts, and the tilt section is separately mounted to the pan section. One of the first things I noticed was that the tilt section registers to the pan section using two dowel pins, and a bolt passes through the bottom of the tripod and pan section into the tilt section to keep all three parts together. When I was playing with this, I noticed that the bottom of the hole that this center bolt goes through is threaded, so it seemed likely that, sometime in its life, a captured screw went through this hole so that you could easily take the tilt head off the tripod in one piece. I don’t know what the original looked like, but I made a replacement to restore this functionality. After taking the legs off, I then pulled apart both the pan and tilt sections, cleaned for dirt, grease, and rust, and got some sections ready to be painted. The wooden legs need to be sanded, cleaned, reglued, stained and refinished, and made ready to go back on the tripod. All the brass parts that lock the legs into position needed to be ultrasonically cleaned and have some minor repairs done. https://ln.run/dl194

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