Aaton
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Aaton is a motion picture equipment manufacturer, based in Grenoble, France. Aaton was founded by Eclair
engineer Jean-Pierre Beauviala, whose efforts have been primarily focused on making quiet, portable motion picture hardware suitable for impromptu field use, as for documentaries. A theoretical model for all motion picture cameras they have produced is the "cat-on-the-shoulder," a small, light, quiet motion picture camera.
After several initial prototypes, the Aaton LTR 16 mm camera
became available on the market in the late 1970s. It has been succeeded by several improved models, including the LTR, LTR 54, XTR, X0, XTRplus, and XTRProd. The currently available product line offers the Xterà (successor to the XTRProd), a specialized small 16 mm camera (A-Minima) and a 35 mm model (35-III). As of early 2007, the company is currently testing and exhibiting a new 35 mm camera called Penelope, the successor to the 35-III, which is specially designed for 3-perf and 2-perf
shooting.
Aaton also pioneered the linking of timecode to motion pictures in the acquisition stage. Aatoncode was one of the earliest schemes for encoding a timecode signal in the frame margins of 16 mm film, allowing rigorous synchronization of audio and film in post-production.
Eclair (camera)
Éclair was a film production, film laboratory and movie camera manufacturing company established in Épinay-sur-Seine, France by Charles Jourjon in 1907....
engineer Jean-Pierre Beauviala, whose efforts have been primarily focused on making quiet, portable motion picture hardware suitable for impromptu field use, as for documentaries. A theoretical model for all motion picture cameras they have produced is the "cat-on-the-shoulder," a small, light, quiet motion picture camera.
After several initial prototypes, the Aaton LTR 16 mm camera
Camera
A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...
became available on the market in the late 1970s. It has been succeeded by several improved models, including the LTR, LTR 54, XTR, X0, XTRplus, and XTRProd. The currently available product line offers the Xterà (successor to the XTRProd), a specialized small 16 mm camera (A-Minima) and a 35 mm model (35-III). As of early 2007, the company is currently testing and exhibiting a new 35 mm camera called Penelope, the successor to the 35-III, which is specially designed for 3-perf and 2-perf
Negative pulldown
Negative pulldown is the manner in which an image is exposed on a film stock, described in the number of film perforations spanned by an individual frame. It can also describe the orientation of the image on the negative, whether it is captured horizontally or vertically...
shooting.
Aaton also pioneered the linking of timecode to motion pictures in the acquisition stage. Aatoncode was one of the earliest schemes for encoding a timecode signal in the frame margins of 16 mm film, allowing rigorous synchronization of audio and film in post-production.
16 mm
- 7 (introduced in early 70s)
- LTR (introduced in late 1970s)
- LTR 54
- A-Minima
- XTR
- X0
- XTR Plus
- XTR Prod
- Xterà
External links
- Aaton Homepage Video La Paluche, Jean-Pierre Beauviala has a dialog with Alain Bergala, festival Cinéma du réel 2011, centre Pompidou, Paris.