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Thank you for purchasing a Cambo product. The Wide RS is a compact medium format system camera featuring lateral and vertical shift of the rear standard. The precision rear shift/rise and fall control is ideal for architecture and landscape photography. It enables the photographer the use perspective control, image displacement and high-quality panoramic stitching.
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A. MOUNTING THE LENS PANEL The Wide RS system is compatible with the Cambo WDS/WTS lens panels. 1. Open both lens panel locks 2. Slide the bottom of the lens plate into the lens panel slot 3. Tilt the lens panel flat to the camera body...
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B. MOUNTING AN INTERFACE ADAPTER The Wide RS system is compatible with the Cambo SLW interface plates. The available interface (adapter) plates are: Interface plate Compatible mount SLW-80 Hasselblad®-V SLW-81 Leaf® AFi, Sinar® HY6 SLW-83 PhaseOne® (including IQ3 series) SLW-88 (discontinued) PhaseOne®, Mamiya® 645 AFd SLW-87 Contax®...
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C. CABLE RELEASE AND SHUTTER The hand grip features two cable release sockets. The cable release must be attached to the release socket/lever of the mechanical shutter. All WDS/WTS lens panels feature a Copal 0 shutter, with shutter speeds between 1/500 and 1 second, B and T.
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(5mm scale). G. LANDSCAPE/PORTRAIT ROTATION The Wide RS 1600 series comes with a sliding mount block. This enables the user to change the camera orientation form landscape to portrait orientation and vise versa within seconds.
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Warning: don’t force the rotation of the camera body when the rotation axis is not positioned (all the way) at the end stop, this could damage the rotation axis or camera body. To rotate from landscape to portrait, please unlock the slide lock lever [1].
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H. ACCESSORY MOUNT, VIEWFINDER AND COMPENDIUM At the top of the camera body features the Cambo accessory mount. The Cambo accessory modules are mounted using a two- way fixation, which results in a accurate and stable fixation. The available Cambo modules are: •...
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image inside the specified image circle, depends on the size of the image circle and the image sensor used. In this example we use a digital back with a CCD size of 48x36mm. When we use a lens with a image circle of 70m, like the Rodenstock®...
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All specifications in this manual are subject to change without notice. Please check www.cambo.com for updates. Cambo is a registered trademark. All other mentioned trademarks are owned by their specific owners. CAMBO Fotografische Industrie BV Tel.
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