We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
New Eclair Camerette Takes Either 35mm or 16mm Film
American Cinematographer
March, 1951
FIG. 1 — Eclair 35mm Camerette, introduced in United States from France in 1949, now boasts companion model taking 35mm and 16mm film interchangeably. Camera is a two-unit job, as shown above. Film magazine is readily detached, in¬ corporates automatic film gate and film transport mechanism.
FIG. 2 — Camerette 35mm and 16mm film maga¬ zines compared. Latter is basic 35mm magazine shimmed out, with 16mm sprockets replacing 35mm.
Instantly interchangeable 35mm and 16mm film magazines broaden the versatility of this rugged utility camera.
By FREDERICK FOSTER
WHEN THE PARIS-MADE Eclair Cam¬ erette was introduced to the Hollywood motion licture industry late in 1949, it was enthusiastically acclaim¬ ed the best light-weight 35mm motion picture camera yet developed for cine¬ matography demanding a compact, hand¬ held camera. Not that it was restricted to such use ; its many exclusive features and its rugged construction have made it a popular camera for all-around motion picture photography.
Eclair now has gone a step further to make the camera even more versatile. Through skillful engineering the com¬ pany has developed the camera for use with both 1 6mm and 35mm film. Eclair is producing a 16/351111x1 combination model which permits the one camera to use either 16mm or 35mm film inter¬ changeably, merely by changing the film magazines and inserting a mask in the film gate.
The advantages of such a camera are immediately apparent; the industrial film producer, for instance, may employ the
16/35 Camerette for photographing pro¬ ductions in either 16mm or 35mm; for filming a given production in both widths; or for shooting a 16mm Kodachrome version of a production being produced in 35mm black-and-white. The major studios can use the camera for special production photography one day, then use it for location scouting the next day, shooting 16mm film. As a rental camera, it is certain to be in constant demand.
In the beginning the Camerette was designed to combine all the advantages of the heavier studio production cameras with the portability of news cameras. Equipped with 400-ft. film magazines, the camera weighs but 14 pounds. One of its outstanding features is its unique reflex viewfinder which permits viewing through the camera lens the scene being photographed. Thus the operator may keep an accurate check on what his camera is recording by observing the action in the viewfinder. A revolving (Continued on Page 118)
FIG. 3 — View of front unit of camera with magazine removed, showing 35mm film aperture and dual claw movement.
FIG. 4— Same unit with 16mm mask (1) in place in aperture; 16mm pull-down claw is shown at (21. Note extended viewfinder tube.