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JVjeltf "30 footer"
Super Giant Plus

sary gears

and bracketry for almost

any

camera/lens combination. The compact

Super Giant Plus

motor body serves as the adjustable ver¬
tical member of the mounting bracketry,
and a set of piggyback gears makes it
suitable for any lens, including physically
short lenses located too close to the
camera front for conventional motors. A
standard 32-pitch drive gear and metric

extension kit.

.5, .6 and .8 module gears are supplied to

Now the

Jimmy Jib

reach heights
of 30 ft. with the

can

50 lbs.
Camera

mitter, which

can

be used with

a

wide

variety of Shure wireless lavalier and
instrument microphones, as well as elec¬
tric instrument inputs.
For information: Shure, 222

Hartrey Ave., Evanston, IL 60202-3696,
(708) 866-2200, FAX (708) 866-2279.

meet most lens drive needs. No tools are

required. Clamp brackets for all standard
matte rod sizes are also provided. The
brackets separate for easy mounting be¬

Capacity

hind

a

matte box or follow focus.

For information: Cinema Prod¬

Still

ucts, 3211 South La

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Angeles, CA 90016-31 12, (310) 8367991,(800)955-5025.

the most

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jib

affordable
arm

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has barndoor holder 6" to 12" in diam¬

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Lite-Ring also has a 5/8" female
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Light Ring and Soft Box
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Wireless Audio Systems
The VP Wireless Systems from

Shure Brothers

designed to deliver
high-performance sound quality for appli¬
cations requiring the mobility of a por¬
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three different battery-operated re¬
are

ceiver/transmitter combinations, the
product line is outfitted with mirror

imaging audio processing, separate
squelch and monitor adjustments, a bal¬
anced microphone level output, and a
headphone jack.
The VP3 portable receiver is
powered by a single 9V battery which
delivers a full seven hours of operation.
The receiver weighs eight ounces and
measures 5" X 2 1/3". Its single pivoting

fastener.
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629 Roundtree, Mesquite, TX 75150,

(214)279-7200.

High-Resolution Lenses
Schneider Corporation of
America's five high-resolution (visible

through

near IR), super-corrected lenses,
in manual focusing and aperture configu¬

ration,

are extremely compact, measur¬
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corrected over the broad spectrum from

"rubber duck" antenna can be set in ei¬
ther a horizontal or vertical position in

400 to 1040 nanometers. Users have also

order to

2 micron range

optimize reception.

VP Wireless Systems can be
utilized with three different Shure trans¬

mitters:

a

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transmitter featuring an SM58 capsule;
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tached WI93 micro-miniature lavalier

microphone;

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The Teck-Tent soft box has in¬

terchangeable front panels which are
available in grid cloth, silk and muslin.
The front panels are easily removed and
securely held in place with hook and loop

March 1995

or an

L11 body-pack trans-

reported outstanding results in the 1 to
with resolution up to 30
line pairs/millimeter. The degree of cor¬
rection matches the spectral sensitivity
of charge coupled devices (CCDs) of

today's most specialized video systems.
In practical terms, the added correction
provides the equivalent of about 1.5 f/
stops in light-gathering power to en-
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