Birns & Sawyer stops leasing film cameras

As reviews have appeared that film film cameras are no more being manufactured, a significant Hollywood rental house stated has stopped leasing film cameras altogether and can sell its entire 16mm and 35mm inventory on March. 19."Individuals are not leasing film cameras in sufficient amounts to warrant retaining the assets," stated William Meurer, who owns Birns & Sawyer, Hollywood's longest operating film camera rental facility house. "Movies are no more being taken on film in sufficient amounts to warrant keeping any film cameras."Birns & Sawyer's inventory includes such digital cinematography cameras because the Arri Alexa, Red-colored Mysterium X, The new sony F3, Canon 5D and 7D Digital slr, and Panasonic AF100 and P2 video cameras. The organization is a player within the area of movement picture film cameras since 1954. Existence magazine still digital photographer Jack Birns founded the organization together with fellow war veteran High cliff Sawyer. The organization was instrumental in presenting the German-made Arriflex type of 16mm and 35mm cameras that offered more mobility than U.S.-made Mitchell cameras, which in fact had become cumbersome and outdated. As Film production broadened, and filmmaking went into increasingly more practical locations, lighter-designed Arriflex cameras acquired in recognition on films for example "Easy Driver," "Bullit" yet others - a few of which leased production cameras and contacts from Birns & Sawyer.In 2000, Birns & Sawyer started supplying digital camcorders for filmmakers, such as the The new sony F-900 and Panasonic Varicam cameras that copied film's 24-frame-per-second look. Other producers like Red-colored introduced 35mm format camcorders which were broadly recognized by major galleries and independent filmmakers. Arriflex stopped building new film cameras this year and it is now delivering its digital Alexa camera to in excess of 85% from the situation comedy's being shot this fall in Hollywood. "While cinematographers appreciate the highest recording of images with film, the main difference is becoming so small the financial aspects of the profession have recently placed the final nail within the coffin of film origination," stated a Birns & Sawyer statement. Contact Peter Caranicas at peter.caranicas@variety.com