Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

216 AUGUST 1953 then assist you in recording your voice on the magnetically coated film edge. Amateur movie makers should keep in mind that for narrative recordings the magnetic sound system is equally successful with double or single perforated film footage. Reeves shines Tne Reeves Soundcraft Corporation has announced that its newly developed Micro-Polishing process, now being used in the finishing of all the company's magnetic products (tape and stripe), has materially reduced the incidence of "drop-outs" during the recording process. Before the development of the Micro-Polishing technique, microscopic nodules of the oxide, inherent in all magnetic coatings, often caused an interruption of the recorded signal. The new system, it is said, creates surface uniformity and a stable high-output level from the first playing onward. Chrolon meter Weighing just over 2 ounces, the Bertram Chrolon photocell exposure meter is now being distributed by Willougbys, 110 West 32nd Street, New York 1. This new light gauge is calibrated in ASA exposure index numbers, reads shutter speeds from 1/1600 of a second to 4 minutes and computes diaphragm stops from //1.5 to //32. The Chrolon, made in Germany, will list for $19.95. Books & booklets Principles of Color Photography, an advanced treatise on this subject by Ralph M. Evans. W. T. Hanson, jr., and W. Lyle Brewer, all of the Eastman Kodak Company, has been published by John Wiley & Sons. 709 pages at $11. Who Couldn't Be A Photographer!, a basic booklet for people who have just bought a camera, is being offered without charge by Willoughbys, 110 West 32nd Street, New York 1, N. Y. Covered are still cameras, movie cameras and still stereo, as well as flash techniques and darkroom work. Country fairs, filming at the zoo, summer weddings and a holiday at Yellowstone and Teton National Park are among the many subjects covered in the attractive Vacation issue of Panorama, the quarterly published by Bell & Howell and now at your photo dealer's. Scotch track for 8 A new magnetic striping service for 8mm. film, designed to aid the user of the Movie-Sound 8 magnetic projector, has been announced by The Calvin Company, of Kansas City, Mo. The new system, known as Scotchtrack, employs in its application a new laminating process developed by the Minnesota Mining Manufacturing Company. Also, the magnetic oxide applied in this way has the same "high-output" characteristics as that of 3-M's No. 120 magnetic recording tape, recently released. Providing for an increase of at least 6 or more decibels of output from any given strength of recording signal, this new coating (it is claimed) offers a better signal-to-noise ratio on playback and increased uniformity of recordings. Scotchtrack will be sold only through a system of Calvin striping coupons. Available through your photo dealer, they will come ten coupons to a book, at $17.50 per book, or at $1.75 for a single coupon. One coupon will get you striping service on a 25 foot roll of double 8mm. film (as it comes from your camera) or on a 50 foot reel of split and edited single-width 8mm. film. On our abacus, this figures out to a unit price of 3V2 cents per 8mm. foot. Appointments p Goerz Langfeld, a grandson of the late founder C. P. Goerz, has been appointed by the C. P. Goerz American Optical Company as sales manager and secretary of the corporation. C. Everett Moses is the new manager of Kodak's processing plant in Flushing, N. Y., while Philip E. Smith has been named assistant manager of the company's Chicago lab. Florman & Babb, motion picture equipment dealers of 70 West 45th Street, New York City, have been made distributors by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company of that firm's Baltar lenses. Here's to Mt. Hood! [Continued from page 213] By and large the falls are along a line running slightly north of east. Thus the summer sun after 3:30 p.m. penetrates into some of the hollows and touches the falls with sunlight. However, at some falls the lower cascade is then in sunlight and the upper in shade. The morning sun adds the difficulty of back lighting. (Oregonians could help us with more details.) I shot them at 24 fps to add grace and majesty, but I tended to overexpose the shaded scenes. We feel that woodsy atmosphere is best caught by erring toward underexposure, if one is to err at all. The wide angle lens from the east side just catches the full scope of Horsetail Falls. A shot from the west brings the picturesque highway bridge into the foreground and catches the flare of the tail. The next day driving up the Washington state side of the Columbia, I learned that Washington does not exploit Oregon's falls, for finding a place from which to photograph those few that could be seen was difficult. A 3x telephoto picks out Horsetail Falls, but the late afternoon sun is needed to make it visible to the casual viewer. From across the Columbia I used a slow pan (which seemed justified as a transition) with a regular lens from Horsetail to the Oneonto Gorge and then followed with a telephoto shot of the Gorge. Oneonto Gorge lends itself to scenes of perpendicular narrow grandeur. Unfortunately the path was washed out, preventing a walk to the falls which I remembered as being a small prize. Multnomah Falls — the most famous of all! A wide angle shot from the railroad trestle takes in the full upper fall, but a slow pan must bring in the lower. To vary the closeup pan of the water falling majestically down, I cut it in the middle and took a closeup of my wife's profile as her gaze followed the falling water. This is the only fall that can be photographed well from the Washington side. But you must find the short dirt road leading to the vantage point! Sheppards Dell must be panned — and with a wide angle lens. Be sure to pause at each fall. Looking straight down from the bridge gives an interesting start. The afternoon sun hits this lowest fall squarely. The attractive middle fall is in open shade. The upper fall is in deep shade. My upper fall shot might have been improved by using a regular lens shot from the visitor's viewpoint, with the water rushing past, and then cutting back to a wide angle view from a better location down the path. Thus you could also change exposure for the shaded fall. Later I also thought that a view from behind the upper fall Tooking down the ravine over all three would be unique. Latourelle Falls cannot be taken too successfully, as far as I could tell, even with a wide angle lens. From the highway only the upper portion is visible above the trees. Down at the falls a pan is necessary. To bring out the effect of the sheer, cut-back face of the cliff seemed difficult. Here again suggestions by Oregonians would help. Much photographed Crown Point is a breath-taking finale of the Mt. Hood Loop trip. Walking up a dirt road back of the Vista House to an abandoned cafe, I found a vantage point for either a regular or a wide angle lens. Since our trip I have seen photographs taken from another place which emphasize the sheer 700 foot cliffs more. Crown Point is easily photographed from the Washington side, especially with a 3x telephoto. The late afternoon sun points up the sheer cliffs by bringing out the irregularities. Also the daytime haze thins out to give a clearer picture. The Mt. Hood Loop has everything any photographer could want: scenery, flowers, sports and drama. It's a wonderful one-day or two-week trip. But when a Californian must sing the praises of another state, things have come to a pretty pass!