[QuadList] Simulating vintage camera looks

[Scott Thomas]

Several years ago I made an animated open for our feature reporter's stories. Because it was the 50th Anniversary year of the station, I wanted to make it kind of a look back to that era. I modeled an old RCA television in 3D and tried to make the reporter look like he was shot with an IO camera. Wish I had more time to work on it and make it look more real, but it was still fun. I even found a Formica pattern from the era to put into the scene. :)

I should take some of my modern footage and see if I can get something close to a TK-41 look. The Canon 5D MkII has an image sensor larger than a 35mm movie camera, so that gets us closer to the shallow depth-of-field of the IO camera. The Canon just has all kinds of sampling errors, creating moiré' artifacts.

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On Aug 11, 2010, at 2:31 AM, Ted Langdell wrote:

> One could liken the larger tubes in the TK-41 to medium format (120, 220, 6x6mm) still film compared to smaller 35mm still film... and its electronic counterparts would be the 1.25", 1" and 2/3" Vidicons, Plumbicons and Saticons in later cameras.
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> Continuing that analogy, film emulsions have different reactions to light and color.  I think part of the magic might be how the tubes' reacted to light in an electrophotochemical way. The tube design and photosensitive material... and size contribute to the "look."
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