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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 12-10-2001, 05:36 PM:

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It even includes a new platter system and zenon bulb. I can also bet that there are at least two of them big cameras in that room off the back of the auditorium, and that one of them takes them long weldin rods to make the light come on.
Mark @ GTS

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 12-11-2001, 12:21 PM:

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I can also bet that there are at least two of them big cameras in that room off the back of the auditorium

Why do so many people call projectors "cameras"? Just Friday night, a father was explaining to her little girl: "Look back there. Behind that glass is the camera that projects the image onto the screen."

Has there been ANYTHING that hasn't been sold on E-Bay yet?

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

Posted by Bob Healey (Member # 1003) on 12-11-2001, 10:22 PM:

What's a camera? A rectangular box with a lens and a roll of film in it.
What's a projector? A rectangular box with a lens and a roll of film in it
So what's the difference?

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 12-11-2001, 11:19 PM:

Our word "camera" comes from the Latin, camera obscura, which means "darkened box". (room)
Derived from the name of a device whereby one could make tracings of a scene onto paper through a pin hole aperture.

It seems to me that a movie projector is just the OPPOSITE. A BRIGHT box... a VERY bright box.

Don't bother to explain that to your average "stupid customer". They'll NEVER get it.

("Stupid customer" doesn't mean that all customers are stupid. Just the ones who call a projector "camera". )

Posted by Bob Healey (Member # 1003) on 12-11-2001, 11:26 PM:

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Randy Stankey:
Our word "camera" comes from the Latin, camera obscura, which means "darkened box". (room)
Derived from the name of a device whereby one could make tracings of a scene onto paper through a pin hole aperture.
It seems to me that a movie projector is just the OPPOSITE. A BRIGHT box... a VERY bright box.

Especially an IMAX "camera"

I just get to try to explain why the "DVD" is such poor quality, when a VHS has less audible/visible defects - ie pops, scratches, dirt, etc