The Kinarri 16 was the
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, lenses, lighting and post-production equipment. Hermann Simon menti ...
's first
16mm
16 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film. 16 mm refers to the width of the film (about inch); other common film gauges include 8 and 35 mm. It is generally used for non-theatrical (e.g., industrial, educ ...
camera, released in 1928.
Function
The Kinarri 16 was first released as a hand cranked version, in a round camera body. The crank was on the right side and the framerate was obviously completely manually adjusted, by how quickly the cinematographer turned the crank. On the left side there was a foldout
direct optical viewfinder
In photography, a viewfinder is what the photographer looks through to compose, and, in many cases, to focus the picture. Most viewfinders are separate, and suffer parallax, while the single-lens reflex camera lets the viewfinder use the main ...
with a crosshair. The left side could be removed to load the film into the camera. The internal magazine took 100 ft (30meters). The Kinarri 16 had a fixed 25mm lens.
The overall design was very similar to the
Kinarri 35
The Kinarri 35 was the ARRI's first 35mm camera, released in 1924.
Function
This was Arri's first camera, constructed by August Arnold. The Kinarri 35 was a hand cranked 35mm camera, in a round aluminum camera body, which was inspired by the Akele ...
, which was released four years earlier. Arri produced this camera for the amateur market.
Shortly after a spring-wound model was released, this one had a cubic camera body, and the option of adding an external magazine. The direct optical viewfinder was replaced by a glass prism on the top of the camera.
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The name is a
portmantau of the German word for "cinema" ("kino") and the manufacturer's name, Arri.
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Left: picture of the hand crank Kinarri 16, right: the spring wound oneVideo of the hand cranked Kinarri 16Footage of a documentary filmmaker with a Kinarri 16
Movie cameras