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NPR
The NPR was really the first of the so-called cinema verite motion picture cameras. The first to offer factory-installed wireless crystal sync sound shooting and the first camera to ever be modified for Super-16. Today, the Eclair NPR 16mm camera has taken a back seat to cameras like the Arriflex SR’s and the Aaton’s. Though it is capable of capturing incredible images, the NPR is not often used today for high-end motion picture productions, documentaries, TV news magazines or 35mm blowup. NPRs are more often seen on the set of student and independent productions. Not like the way it used to be. In fact, you cannot open an American Cinematographer magazine from the late 1960′s through all of the 1970′s and not find it packed with articles about films being made using the Eclair NPR camera. Rugged, dependable, adaptable, reliable… all words used to describe this most prolific filmmaking tool.
This site is a community for NPR owners and enthusiasts. If you have any information you would like to share about your own experiences with the NPR please sign up or leave a comment. If you’ve made a film with an NPR or have a custom modification you’ve designed, whatever… please feel free to sign up and share your knowledge.
4 responses to “NPR”
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Hello,
Just thought I’d pass on my thanks and appreciation for setting up this website; being a proud owner of an Eclair NPR, converted to Super 16mm by Les Bosher here in the UK.
It is truly fantastic to have a website like this servicing information about these great cameras!
All the best,
Steve Wyatt -
Thanks for stopping by Steven, feel free to send in any tips, info, etc. for the NPR. The site has a lot more ACL info at the moment.
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Steven Wyatt June 11th, 2010 at 08:38
Hi,
Yeah thanks for getting back, I’ll try and get some pictures to you of my NPR rig and potentially if I can a link to a short film whuch has Arri SR2 and Eclair npr cameras mixed together, I used the NPR for some ‘action’ scenes, where I coudl make use of the NPR’s variable shutter whcih the Arri didn’t have, the results between the cameras is seamless.
Regards,
Steve -
Just stumbled into an NPR. I used to have one years ago but it got stolen….happy to have one in my possession again. Still rampin’ up to test it.
It came with a TCS TXM-7 crystal sync motor. Have been trying to track down documentation somewhere online but cannot locate it…not even on Tobin’s site which only goes as far back as the TXM-8.
There is a knob on the side, like a rheostat dial, trying to ascertain what it does. Next to it is a hard switch for 24 or 30 FPS….
Anyone on this site have an inkling as to what this dial does? There are no markings by it, nor does it look like any markings have faded.
Cheers,
Bradley
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Steven Wyatt January 17th, 2010 at 06:03