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New Clairmont Super 1.85:

41% more image
area. And the TV Safe Action
is the same height.
It's not

anamorphic, at any stage.
Angle of view widens 19%. The Zeiss T214mm
becomes, in effect,

V

a

T211.3mm.

V

/

/

Afoot of rawstock

costs about 30 cents.

With standard 1.85:1,
about 15 cents of that goes
for negative you don't use.

o

o

o

CD

to use the best lenses in
the world, which are Zeiss.

Bigger format,
still spherical
What we've done is to make
the 1.85 format bigger-
41 % bigger than the old
We moved the optical

1.85.

axis over, centering it on the
Full Aperture; and we
used the full width available
on

All

the film.
our

Zeiss PL lenses

cover

the larger format. So do
the three Cooke zooms-the

20-60mm, the 20-100mm
and the 25-250mm T2.8.
Because of the

larger nega¬

tive area, every lens

Easier to

o

CD

compose for TV
Cameraman Richard Bowen

o

CD

just finished shooting

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t

1.85 is

obviously a good idea,
though. Wide-screen format
without having to shoot
anamorphic. You get to use
spherical lenses, which
are lighter, faster, sharper,
less expensive. You also get

extra wide

angle
designs. It's still a 14mm
design; and it's still a Zeiss.
some

Acadian Waltz in Clairmont
\

Above: Full
Below:

Aperture.
Academy Aperture

o

o

Super 1.85. "With the TV
cutoff the same height as the
1.85, it really was much
easier to frame," he says.
"That meant I could pay
attention to composing
the image and less to

CD

CD

more

O

CD

worrying about formats."

o

CD

Does it
cost more?

t-\

Inside the Academy
Aperture: old 1.85 format

sees a

19% wider

i-\

angle of

view. A 25mm lens becomes,
in effect, a 20.25mm.

Wider angle,
no distortion
This makes the wide-angle
lenses really interesting.
The Zeiss 14mm becomes an
11.3mm. But, of course,
there's none of the stretchy

edge-distortion inherent in

Peanuts. The

camera

costs

week.
Developing and dailies cost

$125
the

more per

same as

before. The

interpositive becomes a
reduction optical (to the old
1.85

format) and costs

about 50%

more.

Inter¬

negatives and prints: the
same as

before.

Finer

grain

at every

stage
Interpositive and
internegative stock are the



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