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Posted by Christopher Seo (Member # 7) on 06-16-1999, 03:20 PM:
Scott Norwood's post in the "Austin Powers stolen" thread reminded me to ask why we haven't seen similar advances in projection. I read that one "Hollogon Rotary projection system" was developed using exactly this 24-sided prism. It seems the benefits are enormous--less wear and tear for both the print and projector, flicker-free image, etc.Incidentally, I have always wondered what causes the "ghosting" whenever we watch a shot that pans; the image moves in a jerky manner and seems to vibrate. Would this problem be improved with higher rates of frames per second, or would this new projector eliminate that?
And why doesn't anyone use this projector?
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-16-1999, 07:22 PM:
Why use a good projector when you can just buy the Christie package for cheap cheap cheap?All kidding aside, the the motion artifacts that you see when a camera pans slowly would probably be improved only slightly, as the projector is still running at 24 frames per second. Even at 30 frames per second there will still be some of this going on. I would love to try out t a projector with that technology, if the rest of it was designed equally as well. Who cares if you don't have any flicker if your image is shaking around all over the place, y'know?
Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 06-01-2000, 02:28 PM:
Actually I was reading through one of my old books and there was a system called the Machau Arcadia projector built by Lietz in the early 1900's
Perfectone and Sondor both build units on this principle for studio aplications
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 06-01-2000, 02:40 PM:
Prism systems have been used for editing tables and inspection projectors (e.g., at the tail end of lab processing machines), but never were commercialized for large screen applications. I suspect contrast, steadiness and heat-handing ability would be challenging to this technology.------------------
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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 06-01-2000, 02:47 PM:
Apparently the only problem the arcadia had was its size (the fact that the film twisted to go hoizontally through the prism and used a perescope projection to the objective lens)
and that a soundhead was difficult to mount to the beast
But they were noted for being very stable units
Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 06-01-2000, 03:30 PM:
I'm pretty sure that Arriflex (the camera company) makes one of these for rear-projection applications. At least, I vaguely remember seeing a picture of it.