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Here are some basic video camera handling hints, guaranteed to improve any video production – big budget or home movie. 1. Good focus, recent video cameras have better focus control than 8 mm film cameras ever did, but poor light and objects moving into the foreground can still conspire to ruin focus. Which is distracting…
It’s An Age Related Thing Somehow we have become used to the kind of technology we have known of in our lifetime. For those of us a bit older change has crept upon us, but it can even be worse than that. We firstly grew up in a very different sort of analog era. Now…
The National Film and Sound Archive in Australia is constantly on the lookout for early material to add to the national collection of our audio visual heritage. One hunt has been for the original 35mm film material of the film Captain Thunderbolt produced in 1951 by Cecil Holmes. Until now only available as an incomplete…
When were the first sound recordings made? If you ask most people about the first sound recording they would reply Edison. He recorded a nursery rhyme on a cylinder gramophone in 1877 and when they say that you can tell them they are wrong! It may then be said that prior to this mechanical musical…
A timeline of major developments in recording media and technology. Sort by year and media type etc..
Englishman Samuel Pepys commented in his diary 1n 1666 of a Mr Reeves demonstrating a “lanthorn that shows tricks”, which so impressed him that he purchased it. Early magic lantern projectors were also described by the Jesuit scientist Athanasius Kircher in 1671. This was about 200 years before the first photographs were made and so…
