American Cinematographer - March 1989 - 11

Motor lets you use
modern electronics
It's a modified Fries motor
that gives you crystal control at
24 and 30 fps. You can plug in
most of the electronics avail¬
able at Clairmont: Strobes,
Precision Speed Control,
Film/Video Synchronizer,
Electronic Projector Interface,
HMI/TV Sync Box (crystal
at 7.5,15, 24, 30, 40, 60 and 120 fps)
We've added an electronic
tachometer and footage counter.

Height compared
with other

cameras:

With video tap, our Mitchell GC
is 63A inches tall. That's l3/4
inches lower than an Eyemo, 53A
inches lower than an ARRI
35-3 with shoulder magazine and
video tap, 83A inches lower
than a 35BL with its video tap.

Other specs:
It's 11V2 inches wide with video

tap and viewfinder, 8V2 inch¬
A

wide without viewfinder. With¬
out lens, it's 28 inches long
and weighs 35 pounds. Camera
base to lens axis is 3% inches;
lens axis to top of camera is the
es

same.

special-purpose

camera

that we built because you
asked us for it. Yes, you can
run cars over

it, but it is not a

crash camera, obviously!
We have invested over

$50,000.00 acquiring and

modernizing just this

one.

(On the BL and the

Type 3, camera base to lens axis
is 4Vs inches.)

85mm) all have barrels

For flying:
two sockets

over

Obviously, this camera is a nat¬
ural for flying through tight
spaces-car windows, for exam¬
ple. To make it easier to fly,
we've installed two standard tri¬

pod sockets on the camera:
one on

the bottom, one on the

top.

Camera driven
over by a car
Before we took these pictures of
this GC camera, Director
of Photography Bob Steadman
drove a car over it for an
Oldsmobile commercial. First
Assistant Kim Guthrie and
the crew made an indentation in
the asphalt with an impact
hammer and
camera

positioned the GC

horizontally.

How low

can

a

hair

2 inches in diameter.

will then be almost exactly 4V2
inches above ground.

So there's a little over 2V4 inches
between the bottom of those
lenses and the GC camera base.

Top of camera
41A>" above ground
If you position the camera with
its base 2V4 inches below ground,
the bottom of those Standard
Mount lenses will be at ground
level. The top of the camera

Std mount lenses on
a PL mount camera?
The outside diameter on these
Standard mount lenses is about
an inch smaller than the PL
mounts in the same focal lengths
you can get the camera
half inch lower. If you're

-so
a

going to run a car over it,
little bit helps.

every

CLAIRMONT
CAMERA

you

get this camera?
The ARRI Standard Mount Zeiss
hard lenses (16, 24, 32, 50 and

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