Silvestri
Silvestri is a maker of sophisticated professional medium format and large format view cameras and accessories. It is based in Montespertoli, near Florence, Italy.
Silvestri Flexicam image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
Silvestri Flexicam image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
Most of the Silvestri cameras as designed as modular system-cameras, with most components interchangeable even between different models.
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Models
Current Silvestri production comprises the following models:
Flexicam
Silvestri Bicam II image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
View camera specifically designed for digital photography by use of dedicated adapters for one of the following digital backs:
- Hasselblad V
- Hasselblad H
- Mamiya 645 AFD
- Contax 645
Bicam
4"x5" view camera specifically designed for wide-angle photography, with digital, sheet-film or roll-film backs.
Currently produced is the Bicam II model, an improved version of the original Bicam. A model Bicam II NK with Nikon lens bayonet also existed but is now discontinued.
S5 micron
Technical view camera with high-precision micrometric movements control for use with digital backs or 6x7/6x9/6x12 roll film or Polaroid backs.
S4
4"x5" view camera dedicated to studio and outdoor film photography.
T30
Silvestri Bicam II, back image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
Compact view camera dedicated mostly to medium format (6x7/6x9) film photography. Interchangeable backs for 6x12 and 4"x5" are available
H / H25
4"x5" view camera with incorporated telescopic eye-level viewfinder. The viewfinder can be equipped with frame format masks and the mask moves up and down following the lens shifting. Model H and H25 differs only by the vertical lens shifting amount.
Silvestri S5 micron image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
Silvestri S5 micron image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
Silvestri T30 image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
Cameras
- Flexicam
- Bicam
- H25
- S4
- S5 micron
- T30
Adapters
- Digital back adapter plate for Mamiya RB67
- Digital back adapter plate for Mamiya RZ67
- Digital back adapter plate for Bronica ETR
- Digital back adapter plate for Bronica SQ