Cambo Wide RS 5000 series User manual

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CAMBO® Wide RS 5000 series
INSTRUCTION
MANUAL
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REV-11-2012
Wide RS 5000 series
®
CAMBO

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Copyright © 2012 Cambo fotograsche Industrie. All rights reserved.
Revised 15-10-2010

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CAMBO® Wide RS 5000 series
Interface adapter frame
Horizontal shift knob
Horizontal shift indication
Spirit levels
Cambo accessory mount
Rise/fall drive knob
Tripod mount 3/8” (removable)
Spirit levels
Interface adapter lock
Interface adapter lock
Spirit level
Retainer interface plate
Hand grip
Knobs tripod mount
Retainer interface plate
Rise/fall indication
Cable release mount
Horizontal shift drive knob
Horizontal shift indication
Spirit levels
Cambo accessory mount
Cable release mount
Tripod mount 3/8” (removable)
Spirit levels
Lens panel lock
Lens panel lock
Mount led light
Hand grip
Wide RS-5000 camera body
Hand grip
Knobs tripod mount
Cable release mount

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Thank you for purchasing a Cambo product.
The Wide RS is a compact medium format system camera featuring lateral
and vercal shi of the rear standard. The precision rear shi/rise and fall
control is ideal for architecture and landscape photography. It enables the
photographer the use perspecve control, image displacement and high-
quality panoramic stching.
The Wide RS is a high performance camera build with the highest precision
and ghtest tolerances.
Key Features:
• Small size 190 x 175mm (W x H) incl. hand grips and tripod mount
• Lightweight only 1.2 kg (excl. lens)
• High grade aluminium camera body and shi plates
• High quality wooden hand grips
• Weight compensaon mechanism for vercal movement
• Horizontal shi 45mm (22,5mm le/22,5mm right)
• Vercal shi 40mm (25mm / 15mm)
• Stching possibilies (2-way / 4-way)
• Accelerated precision spindle gear drive knobs (XL) for fast movement
• Millimeter movement indicator
• Movement indicators on rear sides
• Sensible click indicaon at 5, 10 and 15mm
• Compable with WDS and Wide Compact
• 2 integrated hand grips for steady holding
• Removable cable release (included)
• Removable 3/8” tripod mount (25 mm)
• 5 integrated spirit levels, visible from top or boom
• Accessory mount for 2 point xed accessories
• LED light (included)
• Compact so case (included)
• Broad range of opcs
• Retrong of user lenses oered
Oponal:
• WTS lt-swing lens panels
• Compendium with lter holder (Cambo WRS-1090)
• Viewnders (Cambo WRS-1060, WRS-1080 or WDS-580)
• Levelling Base (Cambo WRS-333)

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CAMBO® Wide RS 5000 series
A. MOUNTING THE LENS PANEL
The Wide RS system is compable with the Cambo WDS/WTS lens panels.
Please note: the image shows the WRS-1200 body which features the same mounng
system as the WRS-5000.
1. Open both lens panel locks
2. Slide the boom of the lens plate into the lens panel slot
3. Tilt the lens panel at to the camera body
4. lock both lens panel lock
B. MOUNTING AN INTERFACE ADAPTER
The Wide RS system is compable with the Cambo SLW interface plates. The
available interface (adapter) plates are:
Interface plate Compable mount
SLW-80 Hasselblad®-V
SLW-81 Leaf® AFi, Sinar® HY6
SLW-88 PhaseOne®, Mamiya® 645 AFd
SLW-87 Contax® 645
SLW-89 Hasselblad®-H
Lens panel lock
Lens panel lock
Slot lens panel
Lens panel

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Please note: the image shows the WRS-1200 body which features the same mounng
system as the WRS-5000. All interface plates are interchangeable.
1. Open both interface adapter locks
2. Slide the boom of the interface adapter into the interface plate slot
3. Tilt the interface adapter at to the camera body
4. lock both interface adapter locks
Note: the interface adapter can be mounted with or without the digital back
aached. The interface adapter can be mounted 90° rotated, to change the
orientaon from landscape to portrait.
The interface adapter can be exchanged with the Cambo WDS-619 ground
glass frame with CCD-markings. The WDS-619 frame uses the same SLW mount
as the interface adapters.
C. CABLE RELEASE AND SHUTTER
Both hand grips feature a cable release socket, the cable release can be mount-
ed to the le or right handgrip. The cable release must be aached to the re-
lease socket/lever of the mechanical shuer. All WDS/WTS lens panels feature
Interface adapter lock
Slot interface plate Slot interface plate
Interface adapter
(in this example SLW-88)
Interface adapter lock

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a Copal 0 shuer, with shuer speeds between 1/500 and 1 second, B and T.
The mechanical shuer must be cocked between every exposure. WDS lens
panels featuring the Schneider® or Rodenstock® electronic shuer are avail-
able on request.
D. MOUNTING THE DIGITAL BACK
Please choose the SLW interface adapter corresponding to the interface mount
of your digital back. The digital back is mounted to the SLW adapter as it would
to corresponding medium format camera body (Hasselblad®-V, Mamiya® AFd,
Leaf® AFi, etc.). To synchronize the digital back with the mechanical/electronic
shuer please use the brand specic “synchro release cable”. For further op-
erang details please follow the instrucons of the manufacturer of the digital
back.
E. MOVEMENTS: SHIFT, RISE AND FALL
The Wide RS features horizontal as well as vercal (rise/fall) movement of the
rear standard. These movements can be used for perspecve control, image
displacement and stching of mulple exposures. This allows the user to take
full advantage of the large image circle of certain lenses. Both movements
shi the image plane, which allows the user to take mulple images within the
same focal plane, ideal for stching. Stching can be used to create panoramas
with the maximum viewing angle or to create higher resoluon les.
The horizontal shi is operated by drive knob located at the top of the camera.
From the opcal center posion the rear standard can be moved 22,5mm le
or 22,5mm right. The vercal shi (rise/fall) is operated by drive knob which is
located at the right hand side of the camera. From the opcal center posion
the rear standard can fall 25mm (shis the image up) or rise 15mm (shis the
image down).
Please note that above movements are the mechanically feasible movements,
which do not by default reect the opcal possibilies of all lenses. Each lens
has its own possibilies and limits.
F. MOVEMENTS AND SCALES
The horizontal movement can be referred at the millimeter scale at the top
of the camera body (1mm scale). The vercal movement can be referred at
the millimeter scale at the side of the camera body. Another way to refer the
amount of shi movement is using the engraved markings on the backside of
the housing (5mm scale).

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G. TRIPOD MOUNTING BLOCK
The Wide RS comes with a removable tripod mounng block, which is already
mounted in place. It is equipped with a 3/8” thread. The height of the mount-
ing block allows the user to take full advantage of the 25mm vercal shi when
mounted on a larger tripod. However, to minimise the size of your camera,
the mounng block can be removed by loosening the two tripod mount screw
Knobs tripod mount
Tripod mount block
3/8” mount hole
WRS-333 level head
Level thumb screw
Level thumb screw
WRS-1075 module
(universal accessory shoe)
WDS mask
WRS-1090 compendium
Rotation lock
Spigot accessory mount
Spigot lock
WDS-582
(extension bracket)
LED module

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knobs. With the mounng block removed you can use the integrated 3/8”
mount in the boom frame of the main housing.
G2. WRS-333 LEVEL HEAD
The oponal WRS-333 level head replaces the original mount. The WRS-333
can be ne-levelled with 3 individual thumb screws, 2 for the horizon and 1
for the perpendicular seng. The camera body can be rotated 360 degrees,
with at the 0 and 180 degrees posion there is a indicaon click. Any posion
can be locked with the rotaon lock. The WRS-333 features a spigot mount to
facilitate any spigot accessory of your choice such as lens shades, ags or sun
shades.
H. ACCESSORY MOUNT, VIEWFINDER AND COMPENDIUM
At the top of the camera body features the Cambo accessory mount. The Cam-
bo accessory modules are mounted using a two-way xaon, which results in
a accurate and stable xaon.
The available Cambo modules are:
• WRS-1060 Apple® Iphone® viewnder holder (Iphone® 4 and 4s)
• WRS-1075 Module with an universal accessory shoe mount
• WRS-1080 Opcal wide angle (120 degree) viewnder (oponal masks)
• WRS-1090 Compendium
I. LED LIGHT MODULE
The Wide RS system includes a removable LED light which is convenient for use
in darker environments when reading the distance scale, aperture and shuer
speed. The LED unit aaches to the magnet posioned under the accessory
mount of the camera body.
The LED module can be set to dierent lighng modes. Standard the LED mod-
ule is in “demonstraon mode”, which means it will turn o automacally aer
four seconds. To change the LED module to “constant light mode” press and
hold the buon unl the light turns o (at least 20 seconds).
Press the buon to turn the light ON or OFF. Press and hold to change the
brightness of the LED. The LED unit uses CR-2016 lithium baeries, to replace
the baeries, the housing can be opened at the base by the key ring (note
small notch in key ring hole).

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J. USE OF LENS PANELS
Each lens has a dened image circle and viewing angle specied by the lens
manufacturer. The indicated image circle is dened by the circle containing
acceptable image quality, dened by the quality standards of the lens manu-
facturer. Cambo does not change these specicaons. For detailed lens spec-
icaons users are referred to data provided by Rodenstock® or Schneider-
Kreuznach®. The maximum image displacement, to keep the image inside the
specied 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® 5,6/23HR Digaron-
S, the maximum horizontal shi is 6mm (to either side) and the maximum rise
or fall is 7,5mm. When we use a lens with a image circle of 90m, like the Schnei-
der® 5,6/35 XL Apo-digitar, the maximum horizontal shi is 17mm (to either
side) and the maximum rise or fall is 20mm.
36 mm
48 mm 17
20
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7,5
60L
43XL, 47XL, 120N, 150N
23HR, 28HR, 35HR, 60HR
28XL 35XL, 72L, 90N
32HR, 40HR, 50HR, 70HR
90HR
Schneider-Kreuznach®
Rodenstock®
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K. WTS TILT-SWING LENS PANELS
The WTS panel allows an angle adjustment between +5 and -5 degrees in both
swing and lt direcon for seng Scheimpug correcons. These can be used
separately as well as simultaneously, using the 2 adjustment knobs. The lens
plane and CCD are parallel when the lt (T) and swing (S) indicators are set to
zero on the scale. This zero-posion is reached when the bearing snaps into the
lock, where the drive knobs become slightly loose by purpose.
To apply lt only use lt knob, to apply swing only use swing knob. When need-
ed, a combinaon of both can be applied.
Note: do not force beyond the +5/-5 boundary marks.
L. LENS CAST
Under certain circumstances there may be occurrence of lens cast, caused by
the light striking the CCD under an angle due to either shis or very short focal
length. The eect may dier quite a lot from one CCD to another and is not a
constant factor. This eect is acknowledged by all digital back manufacturers
and each have their own soware soluon for this.
Swing knob
Tilt knob
WTS lens panel Tilt/swing scale
Swing index
Tilt index
Helical mount
Lens

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cept no responsibility, nancial or other for any consequences arising out of the use of this material.
All specicaons in this manual are subject to change without noce. Please check www.cambo.com for
updates.
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