[QuadList] Simulating vintage camera looks

[Ted Langdell]

That's pretty cool work, Scott.




On Aug 12, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Scott Thomas wrote:

> 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.
>
> <Cribbs1.jpg><Cribbs2.jpg><Cribbs3.jpg>
>
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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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Ted Langdell
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