Silvestri camera

The first camera, the SLV, was born with the 6X7 / 6X9 format, with a rotating back with click stop every 90 degrees and the lens, a Super Angulon 5,6/47 mm in focusing helical mount by Schneider, was not interchangeable.

The whole camera structure was made in anodized aluminum and worked with CNC machinery, ensuring constructive exactness and reliability.

The interchangeable backs allowed to insertion of the extension rings to compensate for the difference in focal distance among the various lenses.

The SLV was substituted by the T30 camera in 1997, The T30, having 30 mm of shift movement, was more suitable to the new lenses with lager image circle that were introduced on the market in that period.

A new concept camera that renews the characteristics of the SLV, using most of its accessories, has the shiftable viewfinder embodied which coupled with the shift movement gives operative easiness and simplicity of use.

Large in dimension, it is later provided with front bellows (Flexibellow) that perform the lens focusing, tilting, and swinging.

The choice selected the matrix backs, creating a compact, easy-to-carry, proportioned to the small size of the high-resolution sensors.

The Bicam introduced in the late nineties was added with new accessories and components so to follow the continuous evolution of the sensors’ technology.

Its main characteristics are the possibility to work with lenses mounted in helical focusing mount and bayonet, or with a bellows system which adds to the camera all the necessary correction movements typical of view cameras; side shift, rise and fall, tilt and swing; all movements are extremely precise and micrometric.