An Historical Survey of the Professional Motion-Picture Camera

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Publisher: SMPTE
Doc Type: Journal Article
Article Type: research-article
Abstract: The past 45 years of professional motion-picture camera design are reviewed by the authors whose personal participation spans this period which started with the hand-cranked cameras. There were cameras that punched perforations, and the motor-driven and silent-sound-stage cameras, including many wide-screen processes. Many of the failures as well as successes are discussed, including three-dimensional and wide-screen anamorphic photography. The influence that our defense and space efforts have had on the design of motion-picture cameras can be seen in the development over the past decade of high-speed cameras of both the pin-registered and rotating-prism type. Miniaturization and rugged construction requirements have influenced motion-picture camera design. Developments in optics, film manufacture and electronics are influencing the design of cameras already on the drawing boards, and work now being done in electronic beam recording promises revolutionary camera designs.
Publication Date: 1976-07-01
DOI: 10.5594/J13258
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J13258
Author(s): Edmund M. di Giulio, E. C. Manderfeld, George A. Mitchell

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Edmund M. di Giulio, E. C. Manderfeld, and George A. Mitchell; An Historical Survey of the Professional Motion-Picture Camera, SMPTE Journal ( Volume: 85, Issue: 7, July 1976); SMPTE, 1976. Available at https://doi.org/10.5594/J13258

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Edmund M. di Giulio, E. C. Manderfeld, and George A. Mitchell; An Historical Survey of the Professional Motion-Picture Camera, SMPTE Journal ( Volume: 85, Issue: 7, July 1976); SMPTE, 1976. Available at https://doi.org/10.5594/J13258

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