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1. Lensboard/front in lowest

focus. Unit is mounted

on

(Fall) position. Note remote

iris rods. 2. Lensboard/front at

far

right (Shift) and at highest (Rise) position. Rises and
are vertical Shifts, of course. 3. Lensboard/front in far
right Swing position. 4. Lensboard/front in extreme
upwards Tilt position. Swings and Tilts can be combined.
Falls

Close focus
for tabletop

The Clairmont Swing/Shift has
built-in rack and pinion focussing.
You

change focus during a
shot without anything touching
lens. The bellows extends, of
can

the

focus down to a
few inches. We're adding lenses
to the range, including some that
course, so you can

are

designed for close work.

Photographer
impressed
Paul Gaffney is a First Assistant in
New York. He has worked, as a
still photographer, with view cam¬
eras. He used our Swing/Shift
on a recent TV commercial shoot.
"I was impressed with the amount
of swing and shift available,"
he says. ' 'This is a giant step back¬
wards in the right direction."

Lenses for the
plane). If you tilt the camera
body up at a skyscraper, you're
tilting the film plane. The sky¬
scraper's shape will be altered -
its sides will converge.

Perspective and
position control
To

keep the sides of skyscrapers

and cereal boxes parallel, you have

There

are

Swing/Shift:

twelve (see list at

all with extra

right),
covering power, all set

into lens boards. Ten of them mount

interchangeably on the system.
The other two are macro designs.
Each of those is
ted

on a

permanently moun¬
Swing/Shift

dedicated

system with its own macro bellows.

18mm T3.8

80mm T2.8

20mm T3.2

110mm T2.4

24mm T3.8

150mm T2.8

28mm T3.2

35mm T3.2
50mm T4

60mm T3.5

S/S Macro
120mm T4

S/S Macro
135mm T5.6

to keep the camera body level.
If you'd like to see less foreground

(at the bottom)

or more

sky¬

scraper (at the top), you can shift
the image down in the frame by

moving the lens laterally up.
To suit your composition, you can
shift the cereal box up or down
to either side within the
frame-while keeping the sides
or

parallel and without altering your
angle of view.

CLAIRMONT
CAMERA
4343Lankershim Blvd, N.

Hollywood. Phone: (818)761-4440. Fax: (818)761-0861

North Shore Studios, Vancouver.

Telephone: (604) 984-4563. Fax: (604) 984-4693



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