American Cinematographer - May 1933 - 34

May 1933 *

Kodaflectors, which will serve as a guide
when other units or larger areas are used.
Camera
>. lamps
Distance from
lamp to subject
speed
Normal
2
feet
1 1/2
Half
2
feet
2l/2
Normal
2
feet
3
Half
feet
3
31/2
Normal
4
feet
2'/2
Half
feet
4
4
Since the efficiency of the different
types of reflector-units varies consideraly,
this can, of course, be taken only as a
rough guide; the most important thing
to remember is that if you want to cover
a larger area, you will naturally have to
move your lights back farther, so that
they will not be included in the picture
-and when you do this, you lessen the
intensity of the illumination on the sub¬
ject in the inverse square of the dis¬
tance the lights are moved: therefore,
you will need either more lights, or
stronger ones.
The choice of subjects for any color
work is important, of course, and no¬
where more so than in such work as this.
If you are in doubt as to whether to
shoot a scene in black-and-white or in
color, try first to visualize it minus its
color; if you can-and it is still pleas¬
ing-the color is unimportant; if you
can't, the chances are that it needs the
color-so shoot it in color!

San Francisco Cine Club
Elects Officers
# OFFICERS recently elected by the
Cinema Club of San Francisco to
serve for the year are: C. A. Young,
president; A. W. Kerrigan, vice-presi¬
dent; K. G. Stephens, secretary; Herbert
Luhn, treasurer and A. J. Holton, program
chairman. The board of directors of this
club consists of the officers and Fred W.
Kolb and Fred Dohrmann.
This club has just completed a contest
among their members for pictures of un¬
limited length made during 1932. The
first award placed the winner's name on
a silver plaque donated by Fred Dohr¬
mann.
This honor was won by K. G.
Stephens for "Beauty Spots,'' an inter¬
esting picture of the seashore.
Honorable mention was won by Fred
W. Kolb, Clifford Nelson and J. W.
Holmes.

New Camera Carriage Saves
Time
Continued from Page 8

new camera-carriage is equally ad¬
vantageous. It is, in the first place, sur¬
prisingly rigid; moreover, its dimensions
are such as to permit lights to be placed
very close to its sides, or to permit the
device to be used in corners where a
tripod would be impractical. Moreover,
the crane adjustment permits one to
change the height of the camera in¬
stantly, without requiring the services of
half-a-dozen stage hands to shift the
to a parallel, or to a baby tripod. More¬

American Cinematographer

Remember-when speed
photography
was
un¬
known
to amateurs-
and many professionals?

35

-When telephoto lenses
were available only to
a few?

-When night photoggraphy was limited to
posed flashlight pictures?

-When a camera fan, to
be "up-to-date," needed
a
wagon-load
of ex¬
pensive equipment?

-When precision lenses
were seen only in the
laboratories of scientists?

The LEICA Camera has
made these all things of
the past!

MODEL D

Hew LEICA Las Created a
New Era in Phctcsraphy
LEICA photography differs from
to photography. It was the first
old-fashioned photographic con¬
pocket precision camera designed'
ceptions as much as the modern
with interchangeable lenses, in¬
automobile
differs
from
the
cluding telephoto and wide an¬
horse and buggy.
The LEICA
gle lenses, and high speed lenses
Camera offers more picture¬
for indoor and night photog¬
l
* >*-CAMERA
taking convenience, speed, ac¬
raphy. It was the first pocket
curacy, and versatility than has
camera with a built-in range
ever before been thought pos¬
finder coupled with lens, giving
sible.
It has blazed
many
correct focus instantly, without
guesswork.
It was the first
trails, broken many precedents.
It was the first precision cam¬
pocket camera equipped with a
era to be built small enough to carry in the
focal-plane shutter of standard cloth construc¬
tion, eliminating danger of internal reflections
pocket. It was the first precision camera to
simplify all controls for greater speed and cer¬
at high speeds.
It was the first "still" cam¬
tainty of operation. It was the first precision
era to use cinema film, giving the photog¬
camera to adapt lenses of microscopic quality
rapher the advantage of the very latest refine¬
ments in cinema film manufacture.
And the
Here's
makers of the LEICA Camera were the first
the New
to offer a complete line of accessories and
Lower-Priced
attachments (now over 300!) thus opening:
Model-
the entire field of modern photographic art
to every LEICA owner at a great saving in
cost.
The LEICA Camera takes up to 36 pictures
on a single roll of film.
Sharp negatives,
giving perfect enlargements up to 12 x 18
inches.
Shutter speeds 1 /20th to 1 ,500th
seconds including time exposures.

4UT||FOCAL

etcxiu

A New and Broader
Conception of Service, Too
The STANDARD LEICA
Including Range Finder $66
A LEICA model within the intermediate
price range.
Has all the improvements of
the Model D LEICA, with the exception
of the built-in range-finder. It is equipped,
however, with a new type, short base
range finder mounted horizontally on the
camera.
Convertible at any time into
the Model D LEICA, at a charge which
brings the total cost no higher than the
regular price of the Model D.
Write for
free booklet "The Standard Leica."

over, these changes in height can be
made without moving the carriage from
its original position, and they can be
changes of either several feet or a mere
fraction of an inch.
In a word, when
used as a semi-permanent camera-stand,
this device reduces the time and effort
required to change camera set-ups,
minimizes the chance of error in these
changes, and increases the efficiency of
the company to a marked degree. The
best proof of the value of this new de¬
vice is the fact that Godfrey Fisher,
Camera Executive at the Fox Studio, has
authorized the construction of a number

The LEICA purchaser receives a 2 year guar¬
antee
certificate
with
camera.
"LEICA
PHOTOGRAPHY," an interesting illustrated
monthly bulletin is sent free to every LEICA
owner.
LEICA Camera-Clubs now organized
in many cities throughout the country help
the LEICA owner to get the most out of
his camera.
Lectures and demonstrations by
leading experts are given before these clubs.
Price of the MODEL D LEICA, with 50 mm
ELMAR f:3.5 lens, $92.50.
Write for Free
Illustrated Booklet-"Why Leica?"

E. Leitz,lnc.!ro'
60

East

10th

Street,

New

York.

of these camera-carriages, and has stated'
that the record of the present experi¬
mental model has shown that these de¬
vices will rapidly pay for themselves in
the increased efficiency of the cameracrews using them. "We have conclusive
evidence," he has said, "that these new
camera-carriages will permit our camera
crews to turn out more scenes per day
-and better ones-with a smaller ex¬
penditure of energy, greater precision,,
and no increase in the stage-crew re¬
quired.
It is clearly a step toward the
goal we are all striving for: better pic¬
tures at lower costs."
American Cinematographer - May 1933

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