Point & Shoot…The First Portable Movie Camera, 1882

Point & Shoot…The First Portable Movie Camera, 1882

The design of the first “Chronograph” as it was called then, was made by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey and debuted at 1882 by the name of Fusil Photographique or photographic ‘rifle’. The rifle used a magazine consisting a plate film separated into 25 light tight compartments – each was exposed separately at a staggering rate for that time of 12 FPS. To see the film it shot and how it worked, click on this link and be ready to be amazed.
http://www.diyphotography.net/first-movie-cameras-was-12-fps-rifle

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4 Comments

  1. Michael Nolan November 21, 2013

    Just look in the “viewfinder” and pull trigger. No critics as of yet.

  2. Gary Donahue November 19, 2013

    Truly ingenious. That really makes “shooting” an understatement.

  3. Jim Young November 19, 2013

    The original GIF machine!

  4. Troy Walters November 19, 2013

    That’s really cool, looks a bit like a tommy gun