Equipment

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• Changing bag

  A light-tight fabric enclosure that lets film or photosensitive material be handled without a darkroom.

• Changing tent

  A framed light-tight enclosure offering more working volume than a changing bag for loading or repairs.

• Charlie bar

  A long narrow opaque strip or small rectangular flag, commonly fitted with a pin, used to cast a controlled shadow or break up a beam.

• Checksum drive

  A designated storage device used in a verified camera-media copy and backup workflow.

• Cheeseborough clamp

  A scaffold-style coupler used to join compatible pipes at fixed or swiveling angles.

• Cherry picker

  Informal name for a mobile elevating work platform with a boom and personnel basket used to reach elevated work positions.

• Chicago position

  The commonly used name for placing a full apple on its long narrow side, roughly 12 inches high; some crews use other regional names.

• Chicken coop light

  A broad overhead soft-light box traditionally built with multiple lamps—often six—arranged to wash a set from above.

• China ball

  A paper lantern used as a lightweight omnidirectional soft source when safely rigged.

• Combo stand

  A heavy-duty stand with interchangeable junior and baby receivers for lighting and grip equipment.

• Condenser microphone

  A microphone whose diaphragm and charged backplate form a sound-sensitive capacitor that converts acoustic vibration into an electrical signal.

• Condenser microphone backplate

  The rigid conductive plate positioned close to a condenser microphone diaphragm to form a variable capacitor.

• Condor

  Film-set slang for a telescopic or articulating boom lift used to elevate lighting, diffusion, rigging access, or personnel.

• Contact microphone

  A transducer that captures vibration through direct contact with an object or surface.

• Contrast viewing glass

  A dark monocular viewing filter used to evaluate relative lighting contrast and source direction without continuously viewing the full scene brightness.

• Core load

  Motion-picture film wound on a hub without the protective flanges of a daylight spool.

• Crab dolly

  A steerable camera dolly capable of moving laterally or diagonally as well as forward and backward without relying solely on straight track.

• Crank stand

  A stand using a geared handle or winch to elevate heavy lighting, frame, or speaker loads.

• CTB gel

  Color-temperature-blue correction media used to cool the visible output of a light source.

• CTO gel

  Color-temperature-orange correction media used to warm the visible output of a light source.

• Cucoloris

  An irregular patterned screen placed in a light path to cast broken shadows and create texture on a subject or background.

• Cutter

  A large flag used to remove a controlled portion of light from a set or lens.

• Cyclorama

  A large seamless curved background that removes the visible floor-to-wall corner and creates an apparently continuous field.

• Daylight load

  Film supplied on a spool designed for loading in subdued light under the stock maker’s instructions.

• Daylight spool

  A flanged film spool designed to limit edge exposure during subdued-light loading and unloading of compatible formats.

• Diffusion

  A translucent material that scatters light, reducing contrast and softening the apparent source.

• Dimmer

  A controller that varies fixture power or output within the fixture and electrical system’s rated limits.

• Diopter

  A close-focus optical attachment that reduces the minimum focusing distance of a lens.

• Directional RF antenna

  An antenna designed to favor radio-frequency reception or transmission in selected directions.

• Director’s monitor

  A production display provided for creative review of framing, performance, continuity, and takes.

• Distro box

  A portable power-distribution unit that divides a feeder into protected branch circuits.

• Dovetail plate

  A tapered sliding plate that lets a camera assembly mount, balance, and release from compatible support.

• Duckbill clamp

  A wide, flat-jawed clamp used to hold foam board, beadboard, or similar sheet material.

• Dutch head

  A camera support head providing controlled roll-axis movement for canted framing.

• Duvetyne

  A light-absorbing fabric used for flags, masking, and negative fill.

• Dynamic microphone

  A microphone using electromagnetic induction, commonly valued for robustness and high-level handling.

• Edge number

  Human- or machine-readable identification printed along film edges to locate stock and footage.

• EF lens mount

  Canon’s electronic bayonet lens interface, used on still and some cinema camera systems.

• Eggcrate grid

  A fabric or rigid cellular modifier that limits the spread of a soft source.

• Eighth apple

  A thin apple-box riser, commonly about 1 inch high, used to make a small controlled height correction.

• Electret condenser microphone

  A condenser microphone whose capsule uses permanently charged electret material rather than requiring external polarization voltage.

• Electrical tape

  A flexible insulating tape intended for electrical conductors and connections; it is not a substitute for gaffer tape.

• Electronic viewfinder

  A camera-mounted electronic display used by the operator for framing, focus, exposure, and status.

• Elephant blocks

  A three-legged modular riser system designed to provide stable incremental height changes in a smaller package than traditional apples.

• Ellipsoidal reflector spotlight

  A hard-beam fixture with shutters and an accessory plane for precise theatrical control.

• Extension tube

  A non-optical spacer that increases lens-to-sensor distance for closer focusing.

• False color

  A monitoring overlay that assigns colors to measured exposure ranges for rapid image evaluation.

• Feed spool

  The reel supplying unexposed or source film into a camera or transport.

• Field mixer

  A portable audio console used to combine, route, monitor, and control production-sound inputs.

• Figure-eight microphone

  A bidirectional microphone pattern sensitive at front and rear with strong side nulls.

• Film can

  A protective container used to store and transport wound motion-picture film.

• Film cleaner

  A machine, fluid, or approved process used to remove dust, oils, and debris from motion-picture film.

• Film core

  A flangeless hub around which professional motion-picture film is wound for storage or handling.

• Film emulsion

  The light-sensitive coating on photographic film containing image-forming materials in gelatin layers.

• Film gate

  The camera or projector aperture assembly that holds film flat at the image plane.

• Film leader

  Non-picture or expendable film attached to protect, thread, identify, or cue a motion-picture element.

• Film light trap

  A labyrinth or velvet-lined seal that blocks light at a film magazine or camera opening.

• Film loop

  A measured slack section that isolates intermittent camera or projector motion from continuous feed and take-up.

• Film magazine

  A light-tight camera assembly that holds supply and take-up film while guiding it through the transport path.

• Film magazine throat

  The light-sealed passage where film enters and leaves a detachable camera magazine.

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