You definitely need some sleep, among other things.
Walt Wayman
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From: "Olympus" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 09:45:44 -0800
>Since I have not slept in over 40 hours.. the question probably
won't make
>sense to me tomorrow.. but..
>
>As far as camera design, has anybody thought about designing a
35mm more
>like a large format??
>
>Ground glass back, see the lens straight through, and the film
FLIPS DOWN,
>in place of the mirror, there is no mirror, and there is no need
for
>curtains either, the mirror duration would be it... Straight
passthrough,
>with the film flipping down for exposure time control. This
would make it
>very small, push that plane very far forward which means the
camera body
>would be smaller, do a double spring and your shutter speed can
be as fast
>as you want it to be (well, within mechanics limits), and because
the film
>plane is closer, the lenses can be a lot smaller. Parallax, is
impossible,
>the image you see is slightly bigger than what would be on the
film, but
>only by like 2-50r so; DOF preview is easy to do, and if you
have a
>translucent LCD film in front of your ground glass, you can
actually setup
>the composition, and touch the locations on the screen you want
to do spot
>metering on.
>
>Am I smoking crack, or has something thought/done this before??
Exposure
>can have instead of a mirror lockup, a "film lockdown" in the
correct plane.
>
>The only difficulty is keeping the film plane rigid and
consistant. I have
>not figured out how to prevent light leaks to the film, as the
film will
>have to cross two planes, but I'm working on it....
>
>maybe if I get some sleep, it'll come to me by the afternoon..
>
>Albert
>
>
>
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