Living pictures; their history, photoproduction and practical working. With a digest of British patents and annotated bibliography (1899)

Record Details:

Title:
Living pictures; their history, photoproduction and practical working. With a digest of British patents and annotated bibliography
Date:
1899
Publisher:
London Optician & Photographic Trades Review
Volume:
Living pictures; their history, photoproduction and practical working. With a digest of British patents and annotated bibliography
Leaf #:
00081
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Robarts - University of Toronto
Sponsor:
University of Toronto
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
52
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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CHRONO-PIIOTOGRAPHY. 63 rendered the production of a long series of photographs in rapid succession possible. Many steps leading up to this desirable consummation have been quoted in the past pages, and methods of securing rapid exposures were invented to keep pace with increasing speed of plates ; indeed, it may be said that as a general rule it has always been possible to procure a shutter so rapid in its action that it refused to yield a picture, and shutter devices have always been ahead rather than abreast of plate speeds. The idea of using a band for the purpose of lengthening the series of views is almost as ancient as Fig. 67. the Phenakistoscope itself. In fact, the first published description of the Stroboscope contains a suggestion of this character, Stampfer therein intimating that a long endless band might be passed over two rollers, provided that suitable means were employed in order to interrupt the light at correct intervals of time. And, indeed, this fact was never lost sight of. Desvignes, in i860, proposed to place his Zoetropic designs on endless bands (Fig. 67), but in the days of wet-plate photo- graphy such an expedient was entirely out of the question so far as securifig pictures was concerned, and even the early dry-plate, with all the assistance it rendered, .lent no substantial aid in this direction.