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Professional as well as amateur movie
makers have always been looking for a way of seeing the exact picture
recorded on the film.
Classic viewfinders, with their need
for parallax correction, could only give a more or less approximate
indication of the field of view.
Certain so-called reflex finders came
a good deal nearer to an ideal solution but most of them still could
not overcome the flickering of the image due to the shutter. Besides,
their design necessarily involved a certain loss of visual image brightness.
With the Christen you are the first
to view your film
With the camera running, observe the
subject through the CHRISTEN integral reflex finder and see for yourself:
The CHRISTEN movie camera projects the
same image on the retina of your eye as it does onto your film. You
constantly see exactly the scene which your film records. You are
the first to see your film as it really is. Moreover, the CHRISTEN
integral reflex finder yields an extra-luminous and enlarged image,
precisely framed, whatever the lens on your camera. Above all, this
image is exceptionally brilliant, and steady without any flickering.
This perfect integral reflex finder system makes the CHRISTEN movie
camera the only 8 mm. instrument which gives the amateur the viewing
convenience of the professional cameraman.
1. The new integral reflex finder
2. Footage counter
3. Frame counter
4. Besancon clockwork motor
5. Safety lock for release
6. Built-in back winding handle
7. Cable release socket
8. Running speeds (8, 16, 24 and 48
frames per second)
9. Continuous running and single frame
release
10. Automatic loading
Available with any of the following
interchangeable lenses:
- standard half inch (12.5 mm.) Berthiot
f/1.8
- Servo-Cinar with automatic aperture
control
- Zoom or Pan-Cinor, or any other lens
with standard type D international thread
- New integral reflex finder
- Automatic loading
- Four speeds: 8, 16, 24 and 48 frames
per second as well as single frame release
- Built-in back-winding mechanism
- Footage counter and frame counter
- Cable release
- Besancon clockwork motor
The first reflex movie camera with two
lenses:
- standard half inch (12.5 mm.) Berthiot
f/1.8
- 35 mm. or 2 inch (50 mm.) Berthiot
tele lens or any other lens with standard type D international thread
- New integral reflex finder
- Automatic loading
- Four speeds: 8, 16, 24 and 48 frames
per second as well as single frame release
- Built-in back-winding mechanism
- Footage counter and frame counter
- Cable release
- Besancon clockwork motor
You can comfortably frame your field
of view and accurately focus even while shooting.
Exceptionally Brilliant Image
No appreciable falling off on adjusting
the aperture, always visible and absolutely free from flicker. The
optical system of the finder, having no moving parts, is completely
independent of the shutter.
Accurate View
The image seen through the finder is
the same as that recorded on the film, but seen a hundred-fold magnified
in area (visual scale 1 - 2 times natural scale with the 12.5 mm.
lens).
Focusing Five Times More Precise than
with the lens
The optical system of the CHRISTEN reflex
finder magnifies the possible lens setting errors five-fold. In effect
you focus through a magnifying lens. This guarantees films of extraordinary
pin-point sharpness.
This marvel of motion picture technique
gives you the full range from wide-angle to telephoto shots. By simply
moving a leve you have all focal lengths at your fingertips. These
lenses are equally suitable for tracking shots without moving the
camera.
And as these lenses are coupled with
the CHRISTEN integral reflex finder, which permits focussing during
shooting, you cover every aspect of movie camera technique in the
simplest possible way.
BERTHIOT PAN-CINOR 8 to 40
Continuous range of focal lengths from
8 to 40 mm.
ANGENIEUX ZOOM 9 to 36
Continuous range of focal lengths from
9 to 36 mm.
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