P3D Re: "Freeze Frame" pans

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 6:39 PM -0600 on 5/15/98, Marvin Jones wrote:


|Message text written by INTERNET:photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|>Can anyone on the list verify if I'm understanding the procedure
|correctly?<
|
|I understood that each camera was a separate entity, interlocked
|electronically, and the final "pan shot" was assembled in an optical
|printer. That would seem more logical to me that running a single strip of
|film through the whole magilla, since you still couldn't make a finished
|filmstrip without optical work even if you did. I could easily be mistaken,
|however.

It looks like there must be at least two variations of the same
system. The description I saw was pretty explicit in that a single
length of film was used...


                 "For his system, Taylor cobbled together in
                 his kitchen an array of 60 interconnected
                 cameras(below). All the cameras share a
                 common film magazine: each one contains an
                 unexposed frame of the same strip of
                 motion-picture film. To take a picture,
                 the camera shutters all open at the same
                 time. The film registers 60 separate
                 photographs of the same image; only the
                 viewing angle varies slightly (1.5 inches
                 separates the center point of each lens).
                 The photographer then turns a hand crank
                 that winds the 10 feet of film until each
                 camera is again fitted with unexposed
                 film."

Thanks --

              Bob Wier
     mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   10:26 PM Friday, May 15, 1998
   Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
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