Category: Photography

Holographic Movies?

Holo-Chopper

I see video games in the future being a whole lot cooler than anyone can imagine.

The system is based on regular digital light processing (DLP) micro-mirror chips, but there is a twist. Instead of using regular lights, the researchers are using laser lights, which are using a unique wavelength. And they feed the chip with interferograms coming from regular 3-D imaging applications. This unique combination leads the micro-mirrors to project a 3-D moving image that appears suspended in air, like a 3-D hologram.

Holographic Movies For Your TV
There is a web version of the PDF here.
(Thank you agent Greg for this. I’ll return your anaglyph glasses soon)
3D, holographic, Texas, optics, science

Kodak to Discontinue Black-And-White Paper

Kodak paper

Well, it had to happen sooner of later. Kodak, the once king of the film world, is going to stop producing their line of black and white photographic papers. Not too long ago they announced that they were going to halt production of some of their Super 8 films.
Now that Kodak is no longer going to be making B&W paper, what is the student or lover of traditional photography to do? Use Agfa paper? Nope, filed for bankruptcy last month. Illford? Filed for bankruptcy last year. What the heck are you going to do, its not like there are any more papers out there, is there?
Wrong!
You can still buy Mitsubishi Gekko, Porter’s brand, and the classic Oriental Seagull paper – great stuff by the way, I remember using some when I was in school and loved the contrast on that stuff.
I have a few links below if you want to stock up your paper safe.

Kodak to Discontinue Black-And-White Paper – Yahoo! News
(A click of the shutter to Kevin for this one)

Kodak, photography, B&W, digital

Civil War Era Grips Tintype Rebel

Tinman

The whole getting back to basics thing hit the guy hard. At least he owns a digital camera.
His work is amazing. Its good to know that someone is still doing work like this. I have read how wet plate tintypes were made and I know that it’s very hard work. I’d be more than happy to pay $15 for a 5×7 photo. A true one of a kind creation. as there is no ‘negative’ in this process.

Civil War Era Grips Tintype Rebel

art, ferrotype, tintype, photography,

First Zone Plate Movie

Zone plate movie

The look and feel of this short film is gorgious. I remember as I was building my pinhole camera I was wondering if a movie camera could be modified to take pinhole images. Looks like it can be done. Neat.

Nick Shuval-Sergeev has created what he believes to be the first “motion picture” made with a zone plate. The short film, called “Eve”, is made in black & white and 20 seconds in length. It is very striking, taking advantage of the glow produced by strong contrast through a zone plate aperature… “I made it with a zoneplate on a Smena 8M camera, (about 30 frames, then assembled on the computer).”

Zone Plate Movie

photography, pinhole, zone, movie, DIY, make

A New Target For Hackers?

CVS Camcorder

Well, It makes sense that a company has finally found a way to tap into the disposable market with a video camera. I have no doubts that there will soon be pages dedicated to hacking this device, and software written to be able to save the probable MPEG stream of video from the unit. More info can be found here