CP-16

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The CP 16A and CP 16R (Reflex) cameras were 16mm motion picture cameras manufactured by the Cinema Products Corporation of Hollywood California. They featured a compact magnesium alloy body, a crystal locked drive system, interchangeable lenses, and a magnetic audio system with a built in mixer that recorded onto special pre-striped (and now discontinued) 16mm single perf magnetic sound film. It accepted both Mitchell and Cinema Products 400 foot film magazines.

The CP 16A used a special 12-120mm Angieneux zoom lens with a prismatic viewfinder. The CP 16R used a rotating mirror shutter. They were primarily intended for television news filming and were quite popular with local and national news agencies before the advent of portable videotape Electronic News Gathering, (ENG) formats.

CP 16s are still often used in small productions and in film schools. Many of these cameras were donated or sold off when news crews adopted videotape.