ARRI sold to the Riedel Group

[Aussie Ash]

from Riedel group homepage

https://www.riedel.net/en/news/news-detail/thomas-riedel-acquires-arri#:~:text=Under the new ownership of,and remain headquartered in Munich.

[kye]

CineD posted this interview.  I haven't watched it yet, as I'm not exactly in the market for an ARRI anything, but I'd be curious to know if there are any plans in there to go for smaller cameras..  With MFT bodies getting larger and larger and ARRI bodies getting smaller, maybe we're at the point where they will meet!

[kye]

 

[BTM_Pix]

Hopes dashed for anyone hoping a bit more of a dynamic company might buy them and filter their products down to our level then.

This is possibly the driest takeover imaginable.

Riedel make Leica look like The Sex Pistols.

[fuzzynormal]

2 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

hoping a bit more of a dynamic company might buy them and filter their products down to our level

A-Cam was an Alexa Mini on a documentary shoot.  The cinematographer didn't really get enough variety for the storytelling the director wanted.  Late in the edit the two of us went back into the field to get pick-ups.  Those pick ups ended up covering close to 1/3rd of the film.  Then, all the footage was cut together, color graded, and released on one of the major American TV networks.  Every shot looks cohesive.  

That pickup stuff was done with a used, ebay purchased, 9 year old GH5. 

And there ain't no way anyone watching that film could readily tell the difference between the two.

That said, anybody got one of those Alexa-Minis laying around they want to give me? I'll trade you my GH5.