The Aaton A-Minima is the first truly new 16mm camera design by a major manufacturer of motion picture cameras in 25 years. Today only France's Aaton and Germany's ARRI manufacture professional quality 16mm cameras. Panavision stopped production of the Panaflex-16 "Elaine" many years ago, and there are less than 30 Elaines in use.

Both ARRI and Aaton introduced their first compact, silent, coaxial magazine 16mm cameras in the 1970's. Complete information on this camera is available on Aaton's website: Aaton France A-Minima Page

The A-Minima is a very compact mirror shutter Super 16 camera. The movement is similar to the Aaton LTR-XTR and does not use a registraton pin. The A-Minima uses special 200 ft plastic daylight loading spools that are unique to this camera. Film is wound emulsion out on these spools. The viewfinder is fixed at a 45º angle, and the viewfinder image is suprisingly bright and sharp.

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