News tagged with film camera

Thomas Edison inspires the oscar awards you don't see

Thomas Edison's invention of the first motion picture camera in 1891 inspired scientific and technological advances that he never could have imagined.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Japan's Fujifilm seeks tie-up with Olympus

Japanese film and camera maker Fujifilm has offered scandal-hit Olympus a capital and business tie-up, it said Monday as it announced a slump in third-quarter profits.

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created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Canon offers new camera for Hollywood filmmakers

(AP) -- Four decades after winning Academy Awards for its cinema lenses, Canon Inc. was back in Hollywood on Thursday, unveiling a new high-end digital video camera before an audience of some of the world's ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (10) | comments 2

How much longer can photographic film hold on?

(AP) -- At Image City Photography Gallery, Gary Thompson delights in pointing out qualities of light, contrast and clarity in one of his best-selling prints - a winter-sunset view of Yosemite National Park's ...

Technology / Other

created May 30, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Hands on high-tech moviemaking (w/ Video)

"Lights, camera, action!" is more than the quintessential phrase that describes the moment filming begins on a movie set -- it also embodies the heart and soul of moviemaking.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 13, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The digital film reel

Movies are becoming more and more digital -- from the shooting to the cut to the showing. At the International Broadcasting Convention IBC in Amsterdam that is taking place from Sept. 10-14, 2010, Fraunhofer movie experts ...

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created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Enthusiasts revive Polaroid film, plan to sell it

(AP) -- A group of engineers and enthusiasts who leased an old Polaroid film factory in the Netherlands announced Monday that they had successfully reinvented instant film and will start selling packs this ...

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created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Polaroid PoGo brings instant printing to the digital age

(PhysOrg.com) -- Polaroid, founded in 1937 by American physicist Edwin H. Land, invented instant photographic printing. Its first instant film camera went on sale in November 1948, but in February 2008 the ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 weblog

The little giant of storage for the big screen

The "FlashBox" onboard recorder will soon make the work of film professionals easier: Truly diminutive in size, it stores digital film on exchangeable disks without compression. German researchers will be ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Review: Yoostar is a movie-studio-in-a-box

(AP) -- If you've ever wanted to battle "The Terminator," talk smack as "The Godfather" or get in the shower with a "Psycho," now you can - without having to move to Hollywood.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Hollywood places biggest 3-D bet yet on 'Avatar'

(AP) -- When James Cameron directed his first 3-D film, "Terminator 2: 3-D," for Universal Studios theme parks more than a decade ago, the bulky camera equipment made some shots awkward or impossible.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Kodak taking Kodachrome away

Kodak is taking Kodachrome away. More than 35 years after Paul Simon immortalized the color film in song, the company announced on Monday that it would be ending production of Kodachrome.

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created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0