Abstract: The device permits swing, shift, tilt and rise-and-fall movements between a lens and a motion-picture camera to manipulate focal relations and image shapes. Preferably the device rests on rails (called "iris rods") of a balance plate or base--secured under the camera--or some other track, similarly mounted. If so, the device has a first intermediary element preferably mounted to slide fore-and-aft on the track relative to the camera; and other intermediary elements mounted in a sequence preferably from the first element for translation and rotation relative to that element--ending in a lens-board mount for mounting a lens. Also in balance-plate mounting the device preferably includes a bellows whose front end joins the lens-board mount and whose rear end holds an adapter to engage the camera lens port. Preferably the device has a yoke (preferably flat and rearward-extending) for, e.g.

Abstract: This adapter is interchangeable with standard nondamping lens-mounting adapters. It reduces the amount of vibration that is transmitted from the camera mechanism to the lens. It thereby reduces the amount of vibration that is retransmitted as objectionable background sound, by radiation from the lens, into a sound stage or other scene area. A vibration-absorbing resilient ring is securely fixed to two substantially rigid rings. A camera mount is secured to one of the rigid rings, for mounting to a camera in a normal position for mounting a standard adapter. A lens attachment is secured to the other rigid ring, for attachment to a lens in a normal position (on the lens) for attaching a standard adapter. The camera mount and the lens attachment both have respective standard-configuration portions, which are spaced apart by a distance that is precisely equal to a standard distance between the respective corresponding portions of a standard adapter.