ARRI EQUIPMENT RENTAL

ARRI - THE COMPANY

• Arri was founded in 1917 in a store on Tuerkenstrasse street in Munich, by two aspirants to PDO August Arnold and Robert Richter, in fact the name of the brand is from their last names, with the AR of August Arnold and with the RI of Robert Richter.

• Their first products were film lighting and printing machines, although later they worked on everything related to the world of cinema, film production, camera manufacturing, lenses, lights...

• Arri began a path in the film world of eclectic invention to support entertainment-turned-big business conceived in a nimble and mobile European style of production. They started working on two German westerns "Vengeance in the Valley of Gold" and "Deadly Cowboy". In 1924, they made what was their initial camera, the KinArri 35.

• With the advent of World War II, the DOP began to document this historical event, and the Germans did so with Arriflex 35 cameras. After the war in the US, he became known thanks to his hand shots and documentaries. In 1968 it was when ARRI began to expand in Hollywood. In 1983 ARRI expanded to Great Britain, and was called ARRI GB whose directors were Derrick Ross and Paul Wild.

• While in Austria Fritz Gabriel Bauer created another company called Moviecam, which was also dedicated to the manufacture of cameras. Arri bought that company in the 1990s, and in 2000 released the Arricam ST and Arricam LT cameras. The ST was Arri's first silent 35mm camera with slide magazines, it was also the last one they released with these features.

• In October 2012 the son of August Arnold sold 50% of his shares to the heirs of Robert Richter who now own 100% of the Arri company.

CAMERAS, LIGHTING AND GRIP ARRI HIRE

AUGUST ARNOLD AND ROBERT RITCHER - THE FOUNDERS OF ARRI

• Arri was founded in 1917 in a store on Tuerkenstrasse street in Munich, by two aspirants to PDO August Arnold and Robert Richter, in fact the name of the brand is from their last names, with the AR of August Arnold and with the RI of Robert Richter.

• Robert Richter traveled to the US in 1925, sold ARRI equipment and worked as a camera assistant at Universal. And it was there that he saw that Hollywood was working with bigger and heavier cameras and this influenced later ARRI designs. He then returned to Munich where he entered the Munich University of Technology and earned an engineering degree.

ARRI - CINEMA'S CONTRIBUTIONS

• In '24, Arri first made its tungsten electric light fixtures with faceted mirror reflectors. Similar multi-segment mirror technology appeared in 2006, in the Arrimax 18/12, the "world's best quality HMI PAR light", and in subsequent M-series luminaires.

• In 1928 they made the KinArri Model II Tropic, with an adjustable rotary shutter and daylight film magazine. They were intended for the 35mm trade. But Richter believed that 16mm would be best for amateur films, and the KINARRI 16 was next.

• In 1937 at the Leipzig Fair, they presented the Arriflex 35 which had a WYSIWYG image: what you saw on the ground glass was identical to the image captured on film and capable of showing whether the shot was in focus or not. Erich Kaestner, who joined ARRI at age 21 in 1933, was the chief design engineer for this light, small and strong camera.

• In 1941 it was when Arri made his first great contribution to cinema with the Arriflex 35II, the camera used a rotating mirror that allowed the camera operator to have a view without parallax while a motor pushed the camera, while being able to focus the image. looking through a viewfinder similar to an SLR camera. This is still used today in movie cameras.

• Television news and documentaries were increasingly shot on 16mm. The Arriflex 16ST came out in 1950, inspired by the rotating mirror shutter of the Model 35 II. 100 foot spools that could be loaded in daylight were needed. In 1965, 16BL came out for industrial films and documentaries with synchronized sound in 16mm. It was ARRI's first silent camera.

• In 1952 he released his professional 16mm camera the Arriflex 16ST with an automatic viewfinder and based on the 35II camera, that is to say with a similar concept in the rotating mirror shutter and with reels that could be loaded in daylight.

• In 1966 Tonino Delli Colli AIC filmed "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" starring Clint Eastwood with a 2-hole Techniscope 35 IICT/B camera, it used half as much film as the 4-hole anamorphic, which helped to reduce costs. Thousands of cameras of this model were sold until the new Arriflex III model came out in 1979.

• In the year 1969, the DOP László Kovács filmed "Easy Rider" with the Arriflex 35 IIC, which was the third highest grossing film in the world and which only with a budget of 360 thousand dollars earned 60 million.

• In 1972 Arri presented at the Munich Olympic Games a silent production 35mm camera, the Arriflex 35BL. It was a comfortable camera to wear on the shoulder. It required a goggled blimp for silence, but it was light, small, and portable. It had the ability to toggle between synchronized sound and it could also be used for slow motion for its 100 fps.

• The Arriflex 535 was not very well received as it was too big and heavy, although DOP Vittorio Storaro used it to film the movie "Little Buddha". Even so, in 1993 they released the ARRI 535BL, which was much lighter.

• In 1994 they released the Arriflex 435 camera as a high-speed 35mm MOS camera to replace the 35 III. It had a speed of up to 150 fps. ARRI's digital age began in 1995 and in 1998 they released the ARRILASER, a cost-reducing digital film recorder. It had the ability to record in 4K resolution.

• In 2003 ARRI released the Arriflex 235 model, a very elegant design that could be used both in the hand, as stabilizers, on platforms and also underwater. A year later, it released the ARRISCAN scanner with a resolution of up to 6K. With this new product, films could be filmed and digitized to data files in real time, which greatly lowered the cost.

• In November 2005 Arri introduced its Arriflex D-20 camera, which was its first digital cinema camera. At the 2006 NAB fair, ARRI unveiled the Arriflex 416 model, Arri's latest analog camera.

• Three years after the Arriflex D-20 came on the market, Arri released the Arriflex D-21 which was more of a design for television than for cinema.

• In 2009, Arri presented its Alexa models in Amsterdam, which began to be manufactured in 2010. The exposure range and the dynamic range were similar. It features modularity and PL mount, Super 35 size CMOS sensor that captures up to 3424 × 2202 resolution and supports uncompressed video.
• Roger Alexander Deakins British DOP of films like "Fargo" and "Blade Runner 2049" (for which he won his first Oscar) said: "This camera has brought us to a point where digital is just better."

• The controls were already familiar and it fully met the expectations of the move from film to digital. The Alexa was the most used camera in the world in the filming of the year 2017.

• Arri's most successful luminaire came out in 2015 under the name of Skypanel. It was a line of soft LED lights brighter than tungsten and totally cool to the touch of the hands. This type of light entered the market as successfully as Alexa cameras.

FILMS AND SERIES RECORDED WITH ARRI

• In 1947, the film The Dark Path was filmed for the first time with an Arriflex 35 camera, directed by Delme Daves and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

• As a great director, Stanley Kubrick also used the Arriflex 35 to film different films such as A Clockwork Orange in 1971, The Shining in 1980 or Full Metal Jacket in 1987.

• Another renowned director, such as Francis Ford Coppola, used this camera to record the movie Apocalypse Now in 1979, which won two Oscars, for best photography and best sound, among many other awards.

• In 2011, the famous Game of Thrones series began in which the Alexa Mini camera was used.

• Another famous series that started in 2013, was Vikings and they used Arri Alexa Plus, Arri Alexa XT, Arri Alexa XT Plus cameras.

• In 2018 Guillermo del Toro won the Oscar for Best Film for The Shape of Water, recorded with the Arri Alexa XT Plus and Arri Alexa Mini cameras.

• In 2018 the famous film about Freddie Mercuri Bohemian Rhapsody by director Bryan Singer, was recorded with the Alexa SXT W camera.

• In 2019, the HBO platform released the Chernobyl series, a miniseries that won the Golden Globe and the Emmy for best miniseries, it was recorded with the Arri Alexa Mini camera.

• In 2019 director Tim Miller used the Alexa Mini camera for the movie Terminator: Dark Fate.

• In the year 2019 for the film 1917 whose director was Sam Mendes, the Alexa Mini LF camera, the Signature Prime lens and the Arri Trinity stabilizer were used.

• Also in 2019 the director Tod Philips with the Alexa Mini filmed the movie Joker.

• In the year 2022 the last Batman movie with director Matt Reeves used the Alexa LF and Arri Alexa MIni LF cameras.

• Today, 80% of the films shot in the world are made with ARRI products, both in cameras and lighting, ARRI is the main brand.

RENT ARRI CAMERA

You can consult all our Arri cameras in camera rental hire Madrid section or Arri camera rental. Consult our extensive catalogue of film and TV equipment for hire.

Arri Alexa 35 Camera Rental

• The Arri Alexa 35 camera for rent has a 4.6K Super 35 format sensor and REVEAL Color Science. With 17 stops of dynamic range. It has improvements in low-light performance and more beautiful colors. The camera supports many types of lenses, including Super 35 and large format anamorphic and spherical. It has a 35mm ARRI ALEV 4 CMOS sensor and up to 120 fps.

Arri Alexa Mini LF Camera Rental

• Regarding its predecessor, the Arri Alexa Mini camera, this camera offers better image quality, less noise and greater dynamic range. The Arri Alexa Mini LF camera for rent has a 35mm ALEV III CMOS LF sensor (4448 x 3096), with an LPL mount and a resolution of up to 4.5K Cine.

Arri Alexa SXT Camera Rental

• The Arri Alexa SXT camera for rent offers us a 4K Pro Res recording, three independent HD-SDI outputs one from the other. It has a 35mm ALEV III CMOS sensor - 16:9, 6:5, 4:3 and Open Gate, PL mount with LDS. This camera offers other recording formats, including ProRes 3.2K or ProRes 3.4K.

Camera rental Arri Alexa LF

• It records at true 4K, this allows filmmakers to investigate the immersive large format while maintaining the natural colorimetry of the sensor, pleasant skin tones... The Arri Alexa LF camera for rent has a 36.70x25.54mm Full sensor -Frame. Accepts ARRI Signature Prime and Zoom lenses, LPL lens mount, and PL to LPL adapter.

Arri Alexa XT Plus 4:3 Camera Rental

• The Arri Alexa XT Plus 4:3 camera for rent is very versatile. And it offers different format possibilities when recording on camera from ARRIRAW to already compressed formats such as Apple ProRes or DNX HD.

Arri Alexa XT Camera Rental

• This camera that we have for rent offers improvements to the previous models of the Alexa models. With this camera you can use different types of sensor 16:9, 4:3 and Open Gate. It has the 35mm Arri ALEV III CMOS sensor. It has a weight of 7.9 kg.

Arri Alexa Mini Camera Rental

• ARRI's smallest, most compact and lightest camera, it is also highly versatile. It accepts recording in different formats and resolutions 4K, 2K, UHD. It also allows high-speed recording of up to 200 fps. The Arri Alexa Mini camera for rent weighs only 2.3Kg.

Arri Amira Camera Rental

• It is a camera specially designed for documentaries with a slow motion of 200 fps. It has a resolution of up to 4K UHD. With a weight of only 4.1Kg. The Arri Amira camera for rent gives us the possibility of recording audio on camera with a three-channel IAOU port.

ARRI LED-L SERIES LIGHTING EQUIPMENT RENTAL

You can consult our lighting equipment for film and TV lighting hire.

Rental L 10-C Frensel

• The L 10-C Fresnel for rent is the largest projector of the L-Series models and also one of the brightest on the market. This model made with a mixture of aluminum and thermoplastics and fortified with fiberglass makes the projector very light and robust. It has magenta-green correction, an AC 100V-250V power supply, and a 2800K-10000K color temperature range.

Rental L 7-C Frensel

• It is considered to have an unprecedented color. It has a 25% improvement in power compared to previous models. Thus, it achieves an increase in the tungsten equivalence from 750W to 1,000W. The L7-C fresnel rental has control over a wide range of color temperatures and hue and saturation adjustments from 2800 to 10000K.

Rental L 5-C Frensel

• It is a focus that combines very well with the L7. The L 5-C for rent is smaller and lighter. The power can be in batteries 23V-36V and AC 90V-250V. It has similar properties to a tungsten Fresnel but with the ability to master a large color range and allow for color correction adjustments, typical of a high quality LED.

ARRI LED-SKYPANEL LIGHTING EQUIPMENT RENTAL

Skypanel S360C Rental

• Currently the Skypanel S360C for rent is Arri's biggest and brightest. Among the particularities that it has, we can indicate a type of RGBW LED Light Engine lamp and a color temperature of 2800K to 10000K and LumenRadio CRMX (Wireless DMX) communication.

Rental Skypanel S60C

• The Skypanel S60C for rent, went on sale in 2015. It is a lightweight 64.5 x 30cm instrument that uses interchangeable thermo-plastic diffusers. Gives a soft light just like a 2000W. In its panel it has an electronic ballast, with which it is not necessary to put any external one. Powered by 23V-36V batteries and AC 110V-240V.

Rental Skypanel S120-C

• The Skypanel S120-C for rent has twice the surface area of the Skypanel S60C, that is, it measures 1290 x 3000mm. It also has a system of interchangeable diffusers. By having DMX input and output, it can be configured at a further distance from the set. It has a CCT of between 2800K and 10000K. And it has the ability to correct magenta and green.

Rent Skypanel S30C

• Se sujeta con un yugo de aluminio. El Skypanel S30C en alquiler, es el más pequeño de los Skypanel, con lo cual se considera una fuente de luz portátil que se puede usar en aplicaciones móviles. Da la misma luz, que una suave de tungsteno de 1000W. También tiene corrección de color verde y magenta.

ARRI LED-ORBITER LIGHTING EQUIPMENT RENTAL

Rent Arr Orbiter

• The main novelty of Arri Orbiter for rent is that it has interchangeable optics. It has a processor with four times the speed of SKYPANEL. It has a wide range of color characteristics that enables it to create a wide range of colors as it has a six-color light engine that includes red, green, blue, amber, cyan, and LEDs.

ARRI HMI LIGHTING EQUIPMENT RENTAL

Rent Arrima Max 18/12

• The Arrima Max 18/12 for rent is the spotlight that gives the most light from Arri. It is the brightest HMI font out there today. It has MAX technology, which allows you to use it without glasses. It has a large diameter of 630mm. It gives the possibility of recording at high speed due to its EB 18/12 KW HS ballast, which reaches up to 1000Hz. It is adjustable between 50 and 100% intensity. Its color temperature is 5600ºK.

Rent Arri M90

• The Arri M90 for rent has MAX technology, so it can be used without glasses. Increases the intensity of light output by 30%. It has a 1000Hz ballast that reduces flicker in high-speed shooting. It has 9000W lamps. Gives a color temperature of 6000ºK.

Rent Arri M40

• The Arri M40 for rent is designed to give the best result in both hard light and diffused light situations. It is a variable instrument since it accepts 2500 or 4000W HMI lamps. It is an open face model, with which it is very bright. Gives a color temperature of 6000ºK.

Rental Arri HMI PAR 4/2.5kW

• As its name indicates, the Arri HMI PAR 4/2.5kw for rent is designed for bulbs of two intensities: 4kW PAR and 2.5kW PAR. It has a set of 5 lenses to direct the beam of light. It also has a color temperature of 6000ºK. The change of lamps is something simple and the ballast recognizes the intensity of the lamp that is placed on the head automatically.

Rent Arri M18

• This spotlight accepts 1200W and 1800 HMI lamps. It has a fork lock that allows you to use Chimera brand accessories. Gives a beam of light between 20º - 60º and is dimmable up to 50%. It has a flicker free 1000Hz ballast. Its lens diameter is 250mm.

Rent Arri M8

• It has the MAX system incorporated, therefore it does not need glasses. It can be used in high-speed shooting thanks to its EB 575/800W ballast that reaches up to 1000Hz. At the back of the head, it has a roulette that allows us to open and close the beam of light.

Rent Arri HMI PAR 1.2KW

• It creates an intense and effective light source, it is an ideal device to recreate sunlight indoors or to support it outdoors. Includes flicker free ballast.

Rent Arri HMI PAR 575

• Used with a set of 5 lenses. It is manufactured in such a way that it accepts a Chimera accessory on the front. It has a 575W PAR bulb that gives a color temperature of up to 6000ºK.

Rental Arri HMI Pocket PAR 200W

• It corresponds to the Arrilux series by Arri. It includes an electronic ballast that regulates the temperature up to 50%. Ideal for close-ups or locations with limited space.

Rental Arri Compact 1200W

• It allows its use indoors and outdoors as it has a modular construction. It is compact and very efficient. Its flicker free ballast allows us to control the intensity between 50 and 100%.

Rental Arri Compact 600W

• This projector gives a hard light and color temperature of 6000K. Avoid flickering in the image since its ballast has three different frequencies: 50Hz, 60Hz and flicker free.

Rent Arri Junior 5000

• It corresponds to the 3200k fresnel instruments designed by Arri. It offers great handling due to its size 438x370x375mm and its weight 12.5. Ideal for use indoors or outdoors.

Rental Arri Junior 2000

• It provides a hard light with a color temperature of 3200ºK. We can use it silly in interior locations, how exterior.

ARRI FRESNEL LIGHTING EQUIPMENT RENTAL

Rent Arri Studio T24

• Supports 20 and 24K lamps. Its design is ideal for lighting situations that need a lot of light coverage. It is made of stainless aluminum. It is ideal for use both indoors and outdoors and the dimmer allows us an emission angle of between 14 and 55º.

Rent Arri Studio T12

• It provides us with tungsten lighting. According to the need that we have, it accepts 10000W and 12000W lamps. It is the right instrument for high-speed shooting thanks to its continuous light and amount of light.

Rent Arri Junior 100 Plus

• It is characterized by its robust manufacturing, the profitability it provides and its size. It is dimmable and can be used in interior and exterior locations. It has a lens diameter of 175mm.

Rent Arri Junior 650 Plus

• It is one of the instruments most used by the DOP to finish the lighting of their projects. It is small and very useful in small filming locations. It offers a hard light of 3200ºK of color temperature.

ARRIHEAD RENTAL

Arrihead 2

• It is a compact head with a crank and a standard Micthel base. It supports a weight of up to 50Kg and has three speeds plus the neutral position. It is compatible with Arri bottom plates and other systems.

ARRI MATTE BOX RENTAL

Rent Arri SMB-1

• It is an accessory for filters up to 6x6. It has a "Tilt" module. It is designed for wide angle lenses and zooms.

Rent Arri SMB-2

• It is primarily designed for 4x5.65 filters. It is a solid system suitable for any type of fixed focal length or zoom. It has a "Tilt" module. All the flags fit very well, the lower and upper ones with the side ones. It has a level-friction system that keeps them closed or open in an intermediate position.

Rent Arri MB-14

• It can be adapted to any objective, with rings available for different front diameters. It has 4 6x6 trays and a quick opening system to change lenses.

Rent Arri MB 18

• Its manufacture is to use 4x5.65 filters. It is a wide-angle mattebox that accepts the use of fixed lenses as well as a wide variety of zooms. It has three 6x6 filter trays. It is robust, ergonomic and lightweight.

Rent Arri LMB-25

• It is light and flexible. It allows us to use it with a 4x4 and 4x5.65 filter. It can be used with any type of objective. It has interchangeable rear adapters of almost all front diameters.