History
The company was formed in 1968 by Ed DiGiulio, a former director and vice-president of the Mitchell Camera Corporation. Their first product was a Silent Pellicle Reflex conversion of the Mitchell BNC 35 mm Motion picture camera.
The company expanded into the 16 millimeter news camera market with the introduction of the CP-16. The CP16 was based on the film advance mechanism used in the older "Bach-Auricon" sound on film cameras, but re-configured in a lighter, more ergonomic self-blimped body configuration. It became one of the most widely used sound-on-film cameras in the TV News industry until it began to be superseded by the color professional video formats of the late 1970s. (3/4 inch field decks & the early Betacam & M format component analog tape systems.)
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