American Cinematographer - August 1998 - 51

"I asked them: Would you
take the shutter out
of an ARRI3 and lend me
that camera to shoot
a

test, all with no charge?

They answered: Sure."
"After that test, we shot
a U2 video with their

Over/Under, using one of
DP Salvatore Totino has shot videos for

Live and Sound Garden. He has shot

the cameras with a
shutter and one without,"

U2,

com¬

says

mercials for Jack Daniels,

H.I.S.

jeans. He

won a

Nike, Jaguar and
Clio for that last one.

^TXJith
no shutter, the image
V V would
obviously be

streaked and blurred'' says DP
Sal Totino. "But how streaked?
I wanted to

see

just what it would

tech

busy, I'd sometimes go
grab it off the shelf my¬
self. But when I began to work on
jobs that meant flying out to
shoot in California, things were
was

back and

different!'

look like."

Not serviced
between jobs

"So I called Clairmont. Not

only
did they take a shutter out for
me
they even took an interest
in the idea. They were curious,
too. And the streaking effect was
very interesting. On the U2
video, the director dissolved, in
post, between the images from
-

the shuttered

Salvatore Totino

camera

and the

no¬

shutter camera!'

"Back then,

I was a First AC. I had
say in where the gear came
from and I didn't know anybody.
One of the first big L.A. rental
places I prepped at regularly

York, where I started
out, the rental places were small.
I knew them and I knew the peo¬

ple. If I needed something and the

ordered

a

cameras.

That

was

place,

we

did that!'

would

prep day. Then one would come
from a job - and half the time

they would hand that lens to me
servicing it."

in

in

Delano, about 100 miles from
L.A. We had extra gear coming up
from L.A. every day. We didn't
have to prep any of it - Clairmont

300mm

they were out of them on

without

equipment is to be
rented; and I've come to rely on
Clairmont the way I rely on my
crew. I recently shot a commer¬
cial with motorcycle stunts, using

wish I were back in New

we

lens at that L.A.

find
"In New

me

York. If

where the

five of their

no

made

"Since 1994, I've been a DP So
I can almost always say

now

CLAIRMONT
CAMERA
Hollywood, Toronto, Vancouver
(818) 761-4440 Fax: (818) 761-0861



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