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Chater Camera Inc - San Francisco Bay Area

Name: Chater Camera Inc - San Francisco Bay Area
Address: 1336 9th Street, Berkeley, CA, 94710, US
Telephone: +15105255400
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Chater Camera Inc is a full service motion picture camera and 35mm optics rental house serving the San Francisco Bay Area filmmaking community and beyond.
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35mm Optics rentals, Digital Motion Picture Camera rentals and Prep Bay rentals for the San Francisco Bay Area. We are rental agents for the ARRI Alexa 35, ARRI Alexa Mini LF, ARRI Alexa Mini S35, ARRI Amira, Phantom Flex 4K and Phantom VEO 640S, Sony Venice 2 8K, Sony Burano, Sony FX9, Sony FX6, RED Monstro 8K, RED Gemini, RED Komodo 6K, Canon C300 Mark III, Canon C70, Xelmus Apollo Anamorphic, C

ooke 2x Anamorphic/i, Kowa Prominar Anamorphic, Atlas Orion Anamorphic, Atlas Mercury 1.5x Anamorphic, ARRI Signature Primes, Zeiss Supreme Primes, Cooke Panchro/i Classic FF Primes, Blackwing7 T-Tuned Tribe7, Leica-M Rangefinder Hugo Primes, Canon FD Primes Zero Optik, Canon Rangefinder Dream Lens Primes, Canon Rangefinder Type SK Primes, Leica R Primes Cinescope, NIKKOR AI-S Zero Optik, Sigma Cine FF Primes, Zeiss CP.3 Primes, Zeiss CP.2 Super Speed Primes, Zeiss Master Primes, Zeiss Master Macro 100mm, Cooke S4/i Primes, Cooke SP3 Primes, Leitz Summicron-C Primes, Zeiss Ultra Primes, Zeiss Super Speeds, Zeiss Uncoated Super Speeds, Zeiss Standard Speeds, Zeiss Otus ZE Primes, ARRI Macro Primes, Angenieux Optimo 12x Ultra, Signature Zoom 65-300mm, Signature Zoom 45-135mm, Signature Zoom 24-75mm, Signature Zoom 16-32mm, Cooke Varotal/i FF 30-95mm, Cooke Varotal/i FF 85-215mm, Fujinon Premista 80-250mm, Premista 28-100mm, Premista 19-45mm, Voigtlander Zoomar 36-82mm, Zeiss CZ.2 70-200mm, CZ.2 28-80mm, CZ.2 15-30mm, Angenieux EZ-1, EZ-2, EZ-3 Zooms, Century Canon 150-600mm, Cooke Varotal Classic 18-100mm, Angenieux Optimo 24-290mm, Optimo Style 25-250mm, Optimo 20.5-98mm, Optimo 15-40mm, Optimo 28-76mm, Optimo 45-120mm, Angenieux HR 25-250mm, Canon CN-E 15.5-47mm, Canon CN-E 30-105mm, Canon CN-E 30-300mm, Canon CN 17-120mm, Fujinon Cabrio 19-90mm, Fujinon Cabrio 85-300mm, Sigma Cine 18-35mm, Sigma Cine 50-100mm, P+S Technik Skater Scope, Laowa Pro2be 24mm T8 Set, ARRI Hi-5, ARRI WCU-4, OConnor, Sachtler, Cartoni, Flanders Scientific, Sony OLED, SmallHD Monitors, Teradek Bolt XT3000, Easyrig Vario 5, Flowcine Serene Arm, Freefly Movi PRO, DJI Ronin 2, DJI RS3 and more!

05/04/2026

New in Rentals: Cooke SP3 18mm T2.4 Lens.
Completing the 6 lens set: 18mm, 25mm, 35mm, 50mm, 75mm, 100mm T2.4
E Mount or RF Mount.
It's always surprising to see how closely these lenses match with Cooke S4’s

04/03/2026

New in Rentals: OConnor 120EX Fluid Head

We’ve been seeing a lot of bigger camera builds and longer telephotos going out this year. While an OConnor 2575 can handle most camera builds, sometimes extra stability on a long lens or effortless balance on a big lens like the Angenieux Optimo Ultra 12x is needed.

The 120EX has a weight capacity of 30-240lbs, is marginally larger in size and only 7.5lbs heavier than a 2575.

03/25/2026

Recently we had the busiest day at the office in a very long time. Great to see so many talented crew friends and help them with some challenging and ‘adventurous’ camera builds.

02/17/2026

Komodo’s with Optimo’s
Full Frame and Super 16mm
Not your typical concert multicam
Dean Snodgrass and Danny Tran making it look easy

01/22/2026

Canon Cine 50-1000mm zoom event ready. Built out with Canon FPD-400 Digital Focus Servo and ZSD-300D Zoom Servo Demand.

It wasn’t so long ago we were sending out Sony F900’s and Panasonic Varicam’s like this all the time.

12/04/2025

New in Rentals: Canon CINE-SERVO 50-1000mm T5.0-8.9
This should have been in our inventory years ago.

There is no other lens like it. 20x zoom range, light weight and yet razor sharp across the whole zoom range. Even with the 1.5x extender the image seems uncompromised.

The lens covers up to Alexa 35 Open Gate. With the 1.5x extender it covers full frame.

Made for sports, live events and natural history ( and crazy crash zooms! )

Finally we have one!

11/18/2025

Every so often we like remind everyone about our Lens Sensor Coverage Charts.
We consider them to be the most useful and up to date charts for fast and accurate information.

The charts only reflects lens cropping/ vignetting. That is any obstruction to the image that increases as a lens is stopped down.
As opposed to lens fall off which mostly diminishes as a lens is stopped down.

Also by looking at the camera formats grouped by image circle, you can determine a lot of other information.
1. Is there a wider lens available with only minimal vignetting?
2. How do other camera formats sensor sizes compare? Helpful if shooting multiple cameras etc.
3. What focal lengths of S35 lens sets cover FF formats? (Ultra Primes always surprise!)
4. If your camera format is not included but you know the image circle, just scroll to correct size.

The charts reflects our lens inventory. That’s because every entry has been confirmed by eye.

https://www.chatercamera.com/content/lens-sensor-coverage-charts

11/15/2025

Laowa Sunlight 2x FF Anamorphic Zooms 40-80mm / 70-135mm T4.5 w/ Amber Flare
(Photo taken with 70-135mm)

These lenses got our attention immediately. We had nothing like them in rental.
Full Frame, Compact, Parfocal and at a very affordable price.

Straight up these are not classic vintage looking anamorphics.
They have a bokeh that could be mistaken for a spherical vintage lens.
With a sharpness that makes them a good candidate for 16:9 projects. Especially interviews when you want something ‘more’ than an EZ Zoom!

The Amber flares when subtle give a warm wash over the image shadow details.
When pushed the flares scream anamorphic.

Stop is T4.5. But in Full Frame it’s still shallow depth.
Any faster and these would be much bigger and much more expensive.

11/07/2025

It’s a big deal to have E-Mount adapters for the Nikon Z mount. Before now E-Mount lenses have never been on Red cameras. The flexibility of lens choices it brings for DP’s is huge.

We received our first Red One 4K cameras 17yrs ago. Before that having a Super 35mm sensor for a video camera was pretty much unimaginable. Today we now have a full frame camera, with 6K resolution, that fits in the palm of your hand, for what was the price of the original LCD monitor for the Red One camera!

10/30/2025

New in Rentals- Red V-Raptor XE with Nikon Z Mount.

We're excited to add the new Red V-Raptor XE to inventory, but even more excited for the Nikon Z-Mount.

The Nikon Z mount fl**ge depth is 16mm. Shallower than any other mount available.
This gives it the flexibility to adapt to Sony E-Mount, something that the Canon RF mount doesnt allow.
We have so many great lenses in E-Mount, this is a big deal.
Additionally we have added Nikon Z to Canon EF, PL and LPL adapters to our inventory.

Address

1336 9th Street
Berkeley, CA
94710

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm

Telephone

+15105255400

Website

http://www.chatercamera.com/

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