An Historical Survey of the Professional Motion-Picture Camera

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: J SMPTE
Volume: 85, No. 7, pp. 487–492
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
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J13258
Author(s): Edmund M. di GiulioMitchell Camera Corp., 666 West Harvard St., Glendale, Calif. 91209
E. C. ManderfeldMitchell Camera Corp., 666 West Harvard St., Glendale, Calif. 91209
George A. MitchellMitchell Camera Corp., 666 West Harvard St., Glendale, Calif. 91209
Copyright: © 1976 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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Photographic Data Recording by Direct Exposure with Electrons [Active]
Design of a New 65mm Handheld Camera [Active]
A New Camera Pull-Down Mechanism [Active]
Zoom Lens for Motion Picture Cameras with Single-Barrel Linear Movement [Active]
The Early History of Wide Films [Active]
Reflexing the BNC Camera [Active]

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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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