Can the A-minima work as a standard 16mm camera ?
Yes. With a Super 16 camera like the A-Minima, even if I use a standard 16mm lens such as an ARRI T3, because the gate has been enlarged for Super 16MM, I believe I will expose the film on the area required by the optical track. Is this correct ? That’s correct for the negative only! but since this area is not illuminated in a standard 16 printer, remains a virgin space for the sound track, exactly as if you were shooting St16! And if it is, is there any chance that you can provide an interchangeable gate for the A-Minima – a standard gate and a Super 16 gate. What we do is to put standard 16 marks in the viewing screen. It’s less expensive to get a Super16 gate (knowing the extra unused film area will not be printed, thus never seen) so we do not make a standard16 gate. And the day you decide to shoot Super16, or sell your camera, you will be happy to have this gate from day one! Not everyone wants to a) blow up to 35 from 16mm, or b) edit with Avid, and if they do edit with Avid that
