Point & Shoot…The First Portable Movie Camera, 1882
On November 19, 2013
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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
Just look in the “viewfinder” and pull trigger. No critics as of yet.
Truly ingenious. That really makes “shooting” an understatement.
The original GIF machine!
That’s really cool, looks a bit like a tommy gun