Imponerende rigg for filming med Canon 5D mkII

De fleste av oss har vel de syv timene med fjernsynssending fra Bergensbanen relativt friskt i minne. Med denne riggen er man utstyrt for å gjøre det samme langs veien:



Karene fra Stargate Studios spår at denne typen kamera (Canon 5D mark II og 1D mark IV) vil bli "a significant player" i alle filmproduksjoner fremover. Ikke som hovedkamera, men som et nyttig supplement for spesielle formål.

Neste fase blir at DSLR-kamera leverer video i 2K og 4K, altså digital kinokvalitet. Først ut er nok Red Scarlet, som vil levere videobilder med 3K (3 megapiksler)

Shooting Driving Plates for 24 from Stargate Studios on Vimeo.

Les også: Panasonic med nytt sensordesign.

Her noen scener fra arbeidet med en spillefilm, i sin helhet skutt med Panasonic GH-1. Dette Micro-four-thirds-kameraet har en bildebrikke som er fire ganger mindre enn f eks Canon 5D, men dette kommer nærmere det forholdet mellom opptikk og bildeflate som vi finner ved gammeldag 35mm film.



Behind the Scenes on the Set of REJOUER from Liam Finn on Vimeo.

Kamera for blinde

Samsung har laget Touch Sight, et digitalt kamera som er spesielt beregnet for blinde. Kameraet skal gi blinde muligheten til å oppleve verden i form av kamerabilder.

Teknikken går ut på å erstatte de tradisjonelle LCD-displayet med et relieff dannet av små tapper, som kan styres elektronisk. Hvert bilde suppleres med tre sekunders lydopptak, slik at det blir letter å identifisere bildene.

Under International Design Excellence Awards '08 ble Touch Sight tildelt gull i kategorien Communication Tools.

Under arbeidet med kameraet oppdaget oppfinneren at den optimale bruken av kameraet:

"at the Beit Ha?iver (Center for the Blind) in Herzliya, Israel, the instructor who teaches a photography course for the visually impaired discovered that holding the camera to the forehead, like a third eye, is the best way for them to stabilize and aim the camera. The instructor also found the visually impaired have no problems estimating distances, since their sense of hearing is especially sharp. Every rustle of wind in the trees catches their attention and can be used to judge distances. Other senses come into play as well. The heat of the sun or a lamp in a living room, for example, signals a direct source of light. They regularly use their non-visual senses to feel the world and manifest it into a mental photograph."

Det er ikke sagt noe om når kameraet kan komme i handelen.

Yankodesign.com

Bygg hullkamera i papir

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day nærmer seg, i år er dette arrangementet lagt til 27. april. I den anledning gjør bildebyrået Corbis et stunt med sine "ReadyMech pinhole cameras".

Veldig analogt, men sikkert moro dersom du er fingerferdig og har noen ruller film til overs.

Corbis Press Release

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (http://www.pinholeday.org) is on April 27th 2008. This day celebrates the revived art of pinhole photography, the oldest form of camera photography.

Corbis, one of the world?s biggest image libraries, is helping celebrate this trend that counters our increasingly digital culture by unveiling a set of Corbis ReadyMech pinhole cameras, designed exclusively with Corbis images and illustrations (http://www.corbis.com/readycam).

Designed by one of New York?s hottest new graphic design firms called FWIS (http://www.fwis.com), the Corbis ReadyMech cameras let people take a break from their computers to instantly download for free, print and build their own pinhole camera, then snap away!

These cameras make it easy for everyone to join in on Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day:
- Build a Pinhole Camera: Download the designs and instructions at http://www.corbis.com/readycam

- Take Photos: April 27th is a day to have fun. Go out and take a fresh look at the world through a new pinhole camera.

- Share Photos with the World: Anyone, anywhere in the world, who makes a pinhole photograph on the last Sunday in April can scan it and upload it to this http://www.PinHoleDay.org where it will become part of the annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day celebration?s online gallery.

Farlig yrke

og en imponerende kortfilm. Så vidt jeg kan skjønne en ekstrem form for stop motion:



Produced by: Claude Chabot
Screenplay: Claude Chabot
Music: Stéphane Scott
Cast: Jean-Louis Crinon, Natacha Belem-Devesa
Animation: Fabien Guilliani, Alexandre Cealis
Print Source: Marion Lucas, Autour de Minuit Productions
Awards: Best animation 2D/3D prize at Festival international très couts (Paris)
- Ars electronica 2006 : HONORARY MENTIONS

Verdens største fotografi

Guinness rekordbok har godkjent to rekorder: verdens største kamera, og verdens største fotografi. "Kameraet" var en hangar på den nedlagte marinebasen El Toro i California.

Selve bildet målte 10x33 meter. Hangaren ble gjort om til et camera obscura (hullkamera) ved å dekke til alle åpninger hvor lyd kunne slippe inn. 80 liter fotoemulsjon ble påført lerretet før bildet ble eksponert gjennom et 6 mm hull i 35 minutter.

Resultatet ble et svart/hvitt-bilde hvor det så vidt er mulig å landskapet utenfor hangaren.

Formatet og teknikken er ikke helt det sammme, men noe lignende er gjort av Abelardo Morell, som makes magical camera obscura images in darkened interiors. The deceptively simple process--he blacks out all of the windows leaving just a pinhole opening in one of them--produces photographs of astonishing, complex beauty. Due to the nature of refracted light, the world outside his darkened room is projected, upside-down, onto the interior space within which he works, converting the room, in effect, into the interior of a camera.

• The Legacy Photo Project

Pressemelding fra The Legacy Project:

The Great Picture --the world?s largest photograph?will have its premier showing September 6 to 29, 2007 at Art Center College of Design, South Campus Wind Tunnel, Pasadena, California.

Guinness Certifies New Photographic Records
In official certificates issued July, 2007 in London, Guinness states: ?The largest camera was created from an airplane hanger measuring 13.71 x 48.76 x 24.38 m (45 x 160 x 80 ft). The camera produced a photograph on canvas measuring 9.62 x 33.83 m (31ft 7in x 111ft). The attempt was organized by The Legacy Project at the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California, USA in June 2006.?

In addition to acknowledging the photograph as a remarkable object, the six artists view The Great Picture as an exclamation point at the end of the film-based era, a marker at the crossing where photography moves away from film and into pixels.

The Exhibition
Art Center College of Design, South Campus Wind Tunnel, Pasadena, California
Artists Jerry Burchfield, March Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Rob Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, Clayton Spada
Opening Reception and Performance Thursday, September 6, 2007, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Exhibition Hours Tuesday-Friday noon to 9:00 p.m., Saturday noon to 6:00 p.m.
Information http://www.legacyphotoproject.com
Location Art Center College of Design, South Campus 950 S.Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91105

The Great Picture was created over the nine months leading up to July 2006 by six well-known photographic artists collectively known as The Legacy Project, aided by 400 volunteers, artists, and experts. Working in their jet- hangar-transformed- into-camera, the group hand-applied 80 liters of gelatin silver halide emulsion to a seamless 3,375-square-foot canvas substrate custom-made in Germany. Development was done in a custom Olympic pool-sized developing tray using ten high volume submersible pumps and 1,800 gallons of black and white chemistry. The premier exhibition at Art Center College of Design, South Campus, will feature The Great Picture along with videos and photographs in an environment designed to re-create the dramatic atmosphere within the jet-hangar-as-camera where the giant photograph was made.

The Great Picture has been featured in hundreds of publications from art journals such as Art in America, Photographie, AfterImage, Juxtapoz, and Black & White Magazine to newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Der Spiegel and The Guardian. A hardcover book on the project, now in production, will be released in 2008. In addition, the Guinness Book of Records pre- approved and is now evaluating applications in two categories: world?s largest photograph and camera.

The photograph shows the control tower, structures and runways at the heart of the shuttered 4,700-acre Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Southern California, shut down in the base closings of the mid-1990s. Once home to U.S. Marine Corps air operations for the western United States and Pacific region (including Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East), El Toro is now being turned into housing and one of the largest urban parks in the western United States.

Great Picture Facts

• Finished Size:
  107?-5? x 31?-5?; 3,375 square feet.
• Photograph type:
  Black and white negative image with a gelatin sizing and a hand-coated gelatin silver emulsion.
• Subjects Depicted:
  The Marine Corps Air Station El Toro control tower, twin runways, and heart of the future Orange County Great Park, with a backdrop of the San Joaquin Hills and the Laguna Beach Wilderness.
• Camera:
  Building #115, an F-18 fighter plane hangar at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, Irvine, California.
• Camera Size:
  44?-2? feet high by 79?-6? feet deep by 161?-6? feet wide.
• Materials To Darken Hanger:
  24,000 square feet of six mil black viscuine; 1,300 gallons foam gap filler; 1.52 miles of two-inch wide black gorilla tape; 40 cans of black spray paint.
• Fabric Substrate:
  Seamless unbleached muslin specially ordered from Germany and weighing 1,200 pounds rigged.
• Aperture Size: One-quarter inch (6mm) pinhole fifteen feet above ground level-no lens or other optics.
• Emulsion:
  80 liters of Rockland Liquid Light-a gelatin silver black and white sensitizer hand-painted onto the fabric under safelight illumination.
• Emulsion applied on July 7, 2006.
• Exposure:
  35 minutes beginning at 11:30 a.m. July 8, 2006
• Date of Development:
  July 8, 2006
• Developing Materials:
  600 gallons traditional black-and-white developer and 1,200 gallons fixer delivered by ten high-volume submersible pumps.
• Developing Tray:
  Eight mil vinyl pool liner contained by a wooden sidewall-114 feet x 35 feet x 6 inches deep.
• Print Wash:
  Twin 4.5 inch fire hoses connected to a pair of hydrants tested at 750 gallons-per-minute.

Google lanserer spesialkamera

Google har det siste året satser på å servere reklame også på TV og sprer virksomheten ut over nettbaserte medier. Nå lanseres et kamera som kan måle om en leser ser inn et gitt område. Løsningen er basert på bruk av et kandiske spesialkamera fra selskapet Xuuk, skriver Engadet og flere andre medier.

Når prisen på Xuuk-kameraet bare er på 6000 kroner - 1000 dollar - åpner dette muligheter for mange målinger. Xuuk-kameraet plasseres blant varer, over plakater eller ved siden av andre objekter på en avstand på hele 10 meter.

Kameraet måler ved å ta fortløpende bilder med ikke synlig lys. I strømmen av bilder teller kameraet hvor lenge den finner runde røde ringer - øyne til en bruker som er rettet denne veien. En tilkoblet datamaskin kan så logge hvor lenge hver hver bruker ser på objektet foran seg.

Google lanserer smart måleteknikk