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it's a box. check out all it's majesty.
i've gotta dig out the tripod and do some proper tests. silent fullres is limited to 1/10 sec and my caffeine-hands can't manage on their own.
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Long exposure HDR can be quite interesting and challenging but it's been made much easier thanks to Magic Lantern :)
Here's a stunning shot I captured of Messier 17 - The Omega / Swan Nebula. Messier 17 is a huge star forming nebula (H II region) residing at 5,000 light years distant with a diameter of 15 light years. Similar to the Orion Nebula, M17 has a blue reflection nebula, dark nebula, and red emissions nebula. Messier 17 is found in the constellation Sagittarius.
Photo Details:
Camera: Canon 60D MagicLantern
1370mm
f/9
ISO: 5000
Exposure: 60 seconds * 18 frames
This is a median composite of 18 individual captures.
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Musée des confluences
Architectes : Wolf Prix et Helmut Swiczinsky
Canon 5d mark 2
Tokina 16-28mm
Magic lantern Dualiso
Tous droits réservés © L. VALENCIA
Merci de ne pas utiliser cette photo sans mon autorisation
this startrail shot was taken thanks to magic lantern (www.magiclantern.fm) and it's intervalometer. It's a multicomposition of 371 single shots at 30seconds with iso 160 and aperture to 2.8 on the samyang 14mm f2.8.
NOTE: The original magic lantern slide was beautifully hand-colored. Just for fun, I wanted to see what a closeup would look like done in sepia. Turned out pretty good! And that look on the baby's face - it's absolutely priceless. He's not sure just what to make of that missionary lady!
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This is a closeup from a beautifully hand-colored glass magic lantern slide named "Itinerating by Motorcycle with Side Car" on its accompanying script, which I was fortunate in acquiring along with the slide. The slide is number 8 in a series, and the script text reads: "Or if the road is not too bad, the missionary may make his trips in his motorcycle and side car."
This slide is from a set of slides from the early 1920s entitled "Building a New Africa" produced by "The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City" to promote the mission work of the Presbyterian Church.
The set was meant to be rented for a nominal fee by churches and shown to their congregations to raise money for the missionary endeavor at home and abroad. This particular set supports mission work in Africa. Part of the introductory slide to be read to the audience reads, "The Presbyterian share in the development of the new Africa is confined to a little section of West Africa, just north of the Equator, in the mandated territory of the Cameroun* .... Here the West Africa Mission, with 9 stations, and 88 missionaries, is trying to minister to the needs of 2,000,000 and more people over a territory of 100,000 square miles."
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* Cameroun was a French mandate territory in central Africa, now constituting the majority of the territory of the Republic of Cameroon. During World War I, it was occupied by British and French troops, and later mandated to each country by the League of Nations in 1922. The British mandate was known as Cameroons and the French as Cameroun. Cameroun became independent as the Republic of Cameroun on January 1, 1960, following a complicated series of events and much bloodshed which continued for years afterward.
A 5-shot HDR using Magic Lantern and HDR Efex Pro 2. The clock face was very difficult to expose correctly and there's still a noticeable halo around it, but it's good to have something to go back to I guess ...
The trajectory for the International Space Station had it enter view from the NW, pass nearly directly overhead, and fall into the Earth's shadow just before traversing Jupiter.
I was fumbling with my Canon SL1 with the Magic Lantern intervalometer and discovered that the only battery was dead. I quickly switched lenses to my Canon 6D MkII, and (without the intervalometer) held my shutter in slow burst mode for 60 frames. I salvaged 52 after cropping the fisheye composite image. 1.6 seconds per frame, ISO 1600, and f/2.8 on the Rokinon 12mm focus near infinity. Base layer was still shot for test lighting (manual lens), top layers lightened, and mask applied to top layers to hide star trail.
3D red/cyan anaglyph created from stereo card, courtesy of the Missouri Historical Society - Online Collections at: mohistory.org/collections
MHS Title: “Women Working at a Bed Linen and Quilt Booth at the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair. (U.S. Grant Sign on Back Wall).”
Date: May 1864
Photographer: J. A. Scholten (1829 – 1886)
Notes: The Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair was a fundraiser for the Western Sanitary Commission to provide for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers of the armies in the Mississippi Valley. The event was held in St. Louis, Mo., during the last couple weeks of May 1864.
Missouri, a southern border state that seceded from the Union in 1861, seems an unlikely venue for such an event, but Union forces occupied the state throughout the war, and the Fair turned out to be a big success, raising about $550,00.
Below are newspaper accounts that provide general information on the Fair, and specific information on the Bed Linen and Quilts booth (the side booth is pictured here, not the main one), the policy on admission of black attendees, the special building erected just for the “stereopticon,” and an article to illustrate that donations came from other states besides Missouri.
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MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SANITARY FAIR
CIRCULAR
St. Louis, Mo., February 5, 1864.
“This Fair will be held in the city of St. Louis, Mo., on Tuesday, the 17th day of May next, to continue two or more weeks. Its object is to raise a sufficient fund for the sanitary uses of the armies in the Mississippi Valley, and for relief of their sick and wounded, under the general direction of the Western Sanitary Commission, whose headquarters are at Saint Louis. This Commission acts by direct authority from the Secretary of War, and enjoys all the rights and privileges which can properly be extended to such an organization. It is under the regulation of the Medical Department, and in connection with it; and, by special orders of Major General U. S. Grant, and of Assistant Surgeon General, Colonel R. C. Wood, it is recognized throughout the Western Department on equal terms with the U. S. Sanitary Commission, whose headquarters are at Washington…. it has aided in the care of the sick in every campaign and of the wounded from every battle-field from Wilson's Creek to Port Hudson, from Pea Ridge to Chattanooga…”
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The Daily Countersign
Published by the Ladies' Executive Committee for the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair
St. Louis, May 20, 1864.
"The Department of Bed Linen and Quilts has, prominent among its decorations, a portrait of the soldier who "knew well how to die, but never to surrender," the lamented of the whole country — General Lyon — by which it might be distinguished. It purports to contain only quilts and bed linen, but shows a very fine assortment of sofa pillows and afghans, which would seem more properly to belong" to the Fancy Goods Department. They are very elegant, of different patterns, dark and light, large and small. This department occupies two tables, one central and one at the side; and the central one contains perhaps the most showy of its articles. The most noticeable is a heavy silk quilt, made entirely of the national colors, beautifully combined, and corded heavily with scarlet, finished at the corners by tassels. We understand no definite price has yet been fixed upon it, but it will be raffled for before the close of the Fair, so those who desire it would do well to secure their chance. There is also a large woolen quilt, of the hexagon pattern, which is entered for the premium, and will also be raffled for, unless disposed of previously. Here one can certainly find quilts and bed spreads of all kinds — silk, cotton and woolen — for large beds, cribs and cradles, plain or highly ornamented. We cannot refrain from calling attention to one large knit spread. It is of white cotton, and beautifully knit. The one which bears a cat rampant, and must have cost much labor, will speak for itself. This is the place for the house-keeper who finds her pillow-cases "giving out" to supply herself for a long time to come. She can have her choice of cotton or linen, plain or embroidered, and of all styles and shapes. She cannot have, however, the elegantly embroidered set which may be found at the central table, for it is already sold."
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The Daily Countersign
Published by the Ladies' Executive Committee for the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair
St. Louis, May 21, 1864.
"We trust that no one visiting either the city or the Fair will fail to go and see the Stereopticon, as without exception it is far more beautiful as a work of art than anything of the kind ever exhibited in this country, showing in wonderful perfection the success of the photographic art. Its views of statuary and sculpture embraces more than could be seen in months of travel in the old world. Any one visiting it, will not fail to go again. Open each day at 11 A. M., 3 P. M, and 8 P. M."
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May 23, 1864 edition
“The Stereopticon, one of the most wonderful achievements of modern science, is to be seen in the large building on Olive street, west of the main entrance, at 3, 8, and 8 9 ½ P. M. This immense building was erected by the Sanitary Committee, expressly for this modern wonder. Admission 25 cents.”
[I can’t recall the source, but I read somewhere that this building held 1,000 people. I don't think it was a 3D show, per se, but more of a slide show, shown on a large screen in a movie theater like setting. –PT.]
See a Stereopticon illustration at this link: digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A1...
See projectors at this link: www.magiclantern.org.uk/lanterns/biunial-lanterns.php
See Wikipedia article on Stereopticon at this link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereopticon
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Chicago Tribune
Monday, May 23, 1864.
From St. Louis.
The Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair.
“From Our Special Correspondent. St. Louis, May 18, 1864. To commence a letter from this city to-day with- out immediate allusion to the great Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair, would be to ignore an object upon which our citizens have in common with those of other places on similar occasions gone mad. “Fair on the brain” is the prevailing malady. The Fair was inaugurated yesterday by a magnificent procession, of which Maj. General Pleasanton was the Grand Marshall….Thousands of Illinoians are in town and they flocked to Washington Square, and stood for hours in the melting sun in hope of seeing Gov. Yates and hearing him speak. General Rosecrans made a few remarks, and the crowd was enthusiastic. All the stores were closed, and the city; never looked finer in the profusion of flags and bunting everywhere displayed.
To-day the Fair building was thrown open to the public, and it is simple justice to say that the quantity of things on exhibition, and the magnificence and completeness of all the decorations and preparations surpasses anything previously attempted in the Sanitary Fair line. With the experience and error of all its predecessors in view, the managers have succeeded in producing an exhibition which will long be remembered as the superlative of the beautiful. Financially, the Fair will probably surpass that of Brooklyn and only fall behind New York, which must be regarded as an extraordinary attainment for a city of a mixed population like St. Louis, where the rebel ladies are still outspoken in their sympathies with Jeff Davis and whose people have moreover suffered largely from the war besides having given generously in times past for the same cause. It is a wonder to those engaged in the business that the Fair is so successfully started. Many ladies in soliciting donations of refreshments and assistance in work on streets, or in blocks assigned to the committee, were openly insulted by secession remarks and frowned at as if they and not the soldiers were the recipients of such contributions. But some secessionists who want to be thought loyal at least have given their time and money (on compulsion as it seems) to save their credit, and thus the rebel families have some honor left, though these gifts do not amount to a tithe of the sum expended by the Union ladies of St. Louis for the sick and wounded rebels in our hospitals.”
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Chicago Tribune
Saturday, June 4, 1864
"Mr. F. T. L. Boyle.
St. Louis, Mo., [month omitted] 27, 1864.
Executive Committee Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair:
Gentlemen: Understanding that it is your determination to continue the admission of negroes on an equality with whites, rendering it possible that white ladies may be subject to the insult of being called on to serve these negroes. I, while such counsels prevail among you, decline longer to serve even for the good object in view, and here-with now tender my resignation. FERDINAND T. L. BOYLE,
The only comment we care to make on the above is, that Mr. Boyle, a few months ago, was an earnest applicant in this city for the command of a regiment or brigade of negro troops! —Missouri Democrat."
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The Evening News
Gold Hill, Nevada Territory
Wednesday Evening, April 27, 1864
NEVADA'S CONTRIBUTION.
"The people of this Territory have responded very cheerfully to the call made upon them by the managers of the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair, more than fifteen thousand dollars' worth of silver bars having been purchased for that purpose. Of this amount the town of Gold Hill furnishes nearly five thousand dollars. The following dispatch was sent over the wires this morning:
General Rosecrans, President at Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair, St. Louis, Mo.
We hear the echo of your appeal. Nevada Territory will send over fifteen thousand dollars in gold and silver bars for the Mississippi Valley Fair. ALMARIN B. PAUL, President Storey County Sanitary Assn.
These massive bars of glittering bullion will be an unwonted and astonishing sight to thousands at the great Fair, and will give them an exalted idea of the wealth, liberality and patriotism of this remote Territory."
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Red/Cyan (not red/blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting. Anaglyph prepared using red cyan glasses from The Center For Civil War Photography / American Battlefield Trust. CCWP Link: www.civilwarphotography.org/
Batiment "La Grande Pyramide"
Architecte : Jean Balladur
Canon 5d Mark 2
Samyang 14mm
Magic lantern dualiso 100-800 iso
Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Alton Downs, Queensland.
Description: Caption: Alton Downs. (Description supplied with slide) Collection reference: 29583, 76 Glass Magic Lantern Slides.
View the original image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/500528
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: www.slq.qld.gov.au/research-collections
You are free to use this image without permission. Please attribute State Library of Queensland.
Looking across Lake Burley Griffin towards Parliament House, Canberra.
This is 12-shot HDR using Magic Lantern to shoot and HDR Efex Pro-2 to process.
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Canon 5d Mark 2
Canon 24-105mm
Magic lantern dualiso 50-800 iso
Slovakia, Nitra: New Hope #PHOTOFRANO
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Port autonome / Mucem-Cerem / Fort St-Jean / Vieux Port / Fort Saint-Nicolas / Notre Dame de la Garde.
Canon 5d mark 2
Canon 24-105mm
Magic lantern dualiso 100-1600 iso
Exposure 4s / 6 photos
A shot I captured of M13 The Great Cluster in Hercules last night at Frosty Drew Observatory in Charlestown, Rhode Island, USA. The M13 globular cluster is about 22,000 light years away and is just barely naked eye visible over Frosty Drew.
This shot also showcases the galaxy NGC 6207 at top left of the image.
Photo Details:
Camera: Canon 60D #MagicLantern
1260mm
f/6.2
ISO: 5000
Exposure: 30 seconds * 20 subs
-Scott MacNeill
Melbourne Museum ... The Melbourne Story
c1880 Little Lonsdale St poor homes : The kitchen / dining room.
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Philadelphia, PA, est. 1682; pop. 1,567,442
Marker:
"Siegmund Lubin. A motion picture pioneer, famed as the first movie mogul. In optical shop here in 1897, began his empire of six studios in five states. His technical genius and marketing skill did much to popularize the medium. Bankrupt by 1916; died in obscurity."
• Siegmund (Lubszynski) Lubin (1841-1923), aka "Sig," "Pop," "Professor Lubin" • born in Breslau, Germany • graduated Heidelberg University as an ophthalmologist • immigrated to the U.S., 1876 • married Annie Abrams, his landlady's eldest daughter • traveling the country by train with Annie, made a living selling eyeglasses at fairs • settled in Philadelphia, 1883 • opened an optical shop
• as his business grew, Lubin added branches in Baltimore, MD & Wilmington, DE • to capitalize on the popularity of magic lantern slide shows [illustration], he took up photography • created, sold & distributed slides from his stores • to differentiate his product & boost sales, he offered hand tinted slides • this painstaking work was performed almost exclusively by women, as was silent era film editing [photo] • a serial inventor, he owned numerous patents which he marketed effectively [magazine ad]
• in the early 1890s Lubin was enthralled by demonstrations of trailblazing moving image projectors such as Muybridge's Zoopraxiscope & C.F. Jenkins' Phantoscope • purchased a Jenkins camera in 1896, then shot his 1st film, a horse eating hay behind his house • video: Muybridge's Zoopraxiscope (4:04)
• enlisted the aid of Jenkins to construct his first Cineograph moving picture projector, the "Marvel" [illustration], which he manufactured, marketed & sold from 1897 to 1910 • the 1st prototype, built to minimize vibration, weighed about a ton
• Lubin motion picture projectors had a stereopticon slide projector built in [illustration] so that (hopefully) his movies could be added to a slide program
• Lubin continued making Magic Lantern song slide sets, which illustrated & promoted popular tunes • one of the most famous was In the Baggage Coach Coach Ahead (1896), a lachrymose ballad written by Gussie Lord Davis (1863-1899) • the Ohio-born Pullman porter was among the earliest successful black American artists, & 1st to gain fame on Tin Pan Alley as a composer of pop music • claimed the song was based on an actual event he had witnessed
• the slides were shot on a Baltimore & Ohio Pullman Palace train • the principal character, a bereaved widower traveling with his children, was played by Broadway actor Ed Dreiser (aka Ed Dresser), brother of author Theodore Dreiser • listen: In the Baggage Coach Ahead, sung by Smiley Bates —The Effect is Quite Startling, Joseph P. Eckhardt
• in March, 1897, the Veriscope Co. announced a delay in the release of its heavily publicized documentary, The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight • while exhibitors and the public clamored for the film, Lubin rushed to fill the vacuum with a fake Corbett-Fitzsimmons movie • hired a wrestler & a sheriff's office employee to play the boxers • used newspaper accounts of the fight as a script • shot the reenactment on a platform in his backyard …more, —The Orphan Film Symposium
• Lubin rushed his "fac simile" into theaters a week before the Veriscope's premier • typical reactions were negative: "…the fighters maul each other in unscientific fashion and the supposititious knockout in the fourteenth round is a palpable burlesque. Several patrons of the performance protested yesterday and were informed by the gentleman in charge that they were 'lobsters.' 'We advertise a facsimile of the fight,' he declared, 'and that's what we give. What do you expect for 10 cents, anyhow?'" —Phonoscope, June 1897
• "Several policemen were on hand but they could no more restrain the impatient and thoroughly exasperated crowd from rushing pell-mell at the box office than human hands could push back the Johnstown flood." —Little Rock Gazette
• Veriscope's Corbet-Fitzsimmons film, shot on March 17, premiered on May 31 • running over 100 minutes, it was the longest film released to date & is considered the world's 1st known feature film as well as the 1st widescreen film (63mm) • while contemporary women rarely if ever attended live boxing events, they showed up in droves to watch the two sweaty, semi-nude pugilists duke it out film video: Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (20:24)
• in 1899 Lubin opened his first theater, a small wooden building with an elaborate façade that he named Lubin's Cineograph • it was located on the midway of Philadelphia's 1899 National Export Exposition • built to showcase Lubin's song slides & movies, but was also another step in the vertical integration that would soon encompass movie production, distribution, exhibition & equipment manufacture [Lubin Films rooftop studio, 1899 photo]
• in 1902: Lubin founded the Lubin Manufacturing Co. & moved into distribution with his first film exchange • 1907: moved into the Lubin Building at 926 Market, announced "A New Film Every Week"; by Sep. were releasing 3 a week • 1908: joined Edison & other film manufacturers to create the Motion Picture Patents Company; after interviewing director D.W. Griffith, then a director of short films, decided not to hire him
• 1910: built "Lubinville," a state of the art studio at Indiana & 20th; expanded to Jacksonville, FL, Los Angeles & Coronado, CA • 1912: built Betzwood, a 350 acre studio complex in Montgomery Cty [studio photo] [studio tour] • 1913: production reached 5 releases per week • opened a studio in Los Angeles, employed then actor Henry King • 1914: rescued Lasky, DeMille & Goldfish aka (Goldwyn) by repairing the misaligned sprockets of The Squaw Man, the 1st feature film produced in Hollywood • video: Lubinville, PA (5:04)
• Betzwood's greatest success was the Toonerville Trolley series of films with 6'3 actor Wilna Hervey (1894-1979) in the role of "The Powerful Katrina" [photo]
• capitalizing on the popularity of minstrel shows, "race movies" such as Thomas Edison's Ten Pickaninnies (1904) & The Wooing and Wedding of a Coon (1905), featuring "genuine negro" actors or white actors in blackface, were moneymakers • Edison touched off a watermelon film craze with his 1896 Watermelon Eating Contest (0:19) , 1900 Watermelon Contest (2:03), & 1905 The Watermelon Patch (10:41) • Lubin, of course, produced similar films and others such as Coon Town Suffragettes, In Zululand & Mandy's Chicken Dinner
• in 1903 he played Simon Legree in his own version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a week after the Thomas Edison version opened to large audiences • video: Edison's Uncle Tom's Cabin (19:03) —Before the Nickelodeon, Charles Musser
• S. Lubin 1905 catalogue: synopsis & photos of the Uncle Tom's Cabin • direct comparison of corresponding frames of the Edison & Lubin versions of the film • though Lubin was sued by Edison on multiple occasions, they later struck up a friendship • video: Sigmund Lubin: Film Pirate (5:04)
• Lubin became one of most prolific producers of films featuring blackface & black stereotypes & was the first producer to put black actors under a multi-picture contract • credited with bringing Rastus — a lazy black man with a yen for chicken & watermelon — & Sambo to the screen • produced thirty “darky fare” shorts marketed as The Colored Comedies between 1913-1915 • featured black vaudeville stars John Edwards (1868–1929) & Mattie Edwards (1866-1944) [photo] • Mattie would go on to make appearances in two films by the black director Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951) —Forgotten Legacy: The Rise and Fall of Movie King Siegmund Lubin, Sharon Joseph
If you want one of the best,
See a Lubin.
If you want your cares to rest,
See a Lubin.
If you've got a splitting head,
If you're feeling fit for bed,
Try a hearty laugh instead —
See a Lubin —Philadelphia Inquirer, 01 Jun, 1984
• Lubin was one of the first producers to commercialize movies • his mass marketing transformed them from novelty to business • by 1904, he was producing about one fiction feature a month • with all manner of "Life Motion Picture" venues" springing up throughout the U.S., he added theater supplies to his catalogue • offered $99 packages with everything necessary to open a movie exhibition business, e.g., his storefront theater package consisted of pressed metal theater fronts, posters, tickets, window cards & banners —The King of the Movies: Film Pioneer Siegmund Lubin by Joseph P. Eckhardt
• now a major American motion picture producer, Lubin stepped up his "remakes" of his competitors' hit movies and expanded his line of exhibitor start up packages: the Showman's Outfit, for example, included a 1905 Exposition Model Cineograph, & Stereopticon slide projector, 2 Cineophone films, 100' each and to accompany the movies, 2 Monarch records & — FREE OF CHARGE — and a Victor Talking Machine complete with horn —A Million and One Nights, Terry Ramsaye
• in 1904 Lubin introduced the Cineophone projector & films [ad] which offered primitive synchronization of image & sound • the films were similar to his magic lantern song slides but with movement & rudimentary lip sync:
"The films are taken together with phonograph records… Thus the illusion is so perfect as if the man on the screen was playing the piece. Every finger motion corresponds with the phonograph record, and the effect is quite startling" —Siegmund Lubin
• Banjo 'Lize, loosely based on a 1903 recording of phonographic theater by Len Spencer and Vess Ossman, was one of the five Cineophone titles Lubin advertised:
"You see the Black Face Comedian in Life-motion Pictures on the screen, and you hear him talk and sing at the same time." —Lubin ad, Silent Film Sound, Rick Altman
• in 1905 Lubin, said to be the 1st movie producer to realize the importance of owning theaters, opened new ones in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati & Reading • his chain eventually peaked at over 100 screens
• introduced a new Cineograph camera which was basically a Charles Pathé studio camera with a tachometer added • in the early days of life motion photography, many cameramen maintained a constant frame rate by turning the camera's crank to the tempo of music played in their heads • the persistent beat of the Anvil Chorus from Il trovatore made it a popular choice • to avoid distraction, some cinematographers would plug their ears when music was played on the set
• the Cineograph's tachometer added the ability to know rather than estimate the camera's operating speed • this provided an important competitive advantage because like fabric, films were priced by length • Lubin not only charged just 9 to 12 cents per foot vs. Edison's 15 cents, each foot of a Lubin film yielded more screen time than Edison's because it was shot — and therefore exhibited — at a slower speed • video: hand cranked projection of Lubin's 1912 film His Mistake (6:29)
• a 1909 government study estimated cost per finished foot of film to be about 6 cents with raw stock alone costing 3 cents, processing & overhead 1 cent • "manufacturing the negative," i.e., production, including talent, sets, props, crew, etc. cost 2 cents —Congressional Serial Set
• in 1907 filmmaker Lyman Howe's "Moving Pictures That Talk" opened in Baltimore at Ford's Opera House • talented actors & sound imitators behind the translucent screen added dialog and sound effects • the "talking picture," a huge hit, ran 4 wks.
• Lubin moved quickly to respond, most notably with a silent song film of Grace Powers & the Four Rosebuds performing the song, It's Great to be a Soldier Man• when the film was exhibited, Grace & her Rosebuds, concealed behind the translucent screen, performed the song • attempted to maintain synchronization with the image by following the lip movement on the screen • thus a genuine live performance was concealed behind a silent movie of the same performers
• in 1914 an explosion & fire in the film vault at Lubinville destroyed most of the Lubin Films negatives • WW I eliminated the company's foreign markets • Lubin closed his studios one by one • after creditors seized control in 1916, he returned to his work as an optician, died in 1923 • S. Lubin filmography
• this is also the site of one of the 1st photo studios in the U.S.
Marker:
"Robert Cornelius. This metallurgist and brass founder opened one of the world's first photographic studios here in the spring of 1840. His collaboration with chemist Paul Beck Goddard in successful experiments to reduce exposure times made it possible to use the camera in portraiture."
• Robert Cornelius (1809-1893) [photo] • American pioneer of photography & lamp manufacturer • gallery of photos
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SWANS - Semi-Wide Angle Nebulae Survey
The Western part of this huge but faint bubble of ionized gas happened to be grazed by the margin of the shot made at day 2. With its 3° width it deserves a separate shot.
This is a complex object, containing several individually designated parts, and a huge portion of it is unseen by human eye.
Aquisition time: 09-10.08.2013 between 23:40 and 02:40 MSK (UTC+4)
Equipment:
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro USM lens and Baader Planetarium 2" UHC filter mounted in front of the lens via step-down ring attached to Canon EOS 60D running Magic Lantern 2.3 firmware override riding on Vixen Polarie tracking platform over photo-tripod (alltogether codenamed "Anywhere Is, SWANS configuration").
Aperture 21,4 mm
Focal length 60 mm
Tv = 60 seconds
Av = f/2.8
ISO 2000 and 4000
Exposures: 41@ ISO2000 and 21@ISO400 (plus 15+10 dark frames and 10+10 offset frames plus 2 fake flat-field frames).
Processing: Contrast was set to "linear" for all images in Canon DPP and 16-bit outputs were fed to DSS (note for DSS users: each ISO-set was processen in separate group with only Master Flat residing in the Main Group, Maximum Enthropy image generation mode was used ).
Flat-field images were made by applying Gaussian Blur of 250 pixel radius to a randomly chosen image from the series. Once made, Master Flat works fine and removes vingetting very efficiently.
16-bit stacking result were then processed in Photoshop with Levels (namely gamma was set to 3,5) and Curves (skewed sigmoid curve was applied two times).
Note: some star-reduction technique wouldn't hurt...
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Reading about Stan Lee, I was struck by his remark about religion: "Well, let me put it this way... No, I'm not going to try to be clever. I really don't know. I just don't know". Very honest and candid of course, which we all respect as the modern dilemma, yet it sparked ideas in me for a way to bridge (reconcile) various things, which is my self-conceived art process.
Playfully, the "Green Lantern" sees its own upgrade with the Magic Lantern from the past. I won't belabor with what can be studied from the drawing's notes; a circular cigar humidor to meditate upon the divine, a removable space within the camera to allow it to function as a projector-camera, and an all-terrain base recalling the design of a Cathedral nave.
A personage from history with a complex religious belief, Marcel Proust can perhaps lend a way to bridge things. His famous magic lantern of his bedroom is a device which struck me as very amenable if coupled with a viewfinder that is geared to revealing and concealing (In this case it is the light itself representing the Divine), and dealing with the unattainable, which is contained in the text of Stan Lee's statement. Edward Hopper also dealt with the unattainable, as I have mentioned in my previous design for him. It is my self-belief that everything is related to everything or can be made so, profitably. And to see and coax out the connection between things is an important if not main idea of what I'm trying to do. This in itself is a form of spirituality in my opinion.
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Here's a sequence I snapped this afternoon of Venus being occulted by the crescent Moon. I shot this at Frosty Drew Observatory in Charlestown, Rhode Island. Note the 68% gibbous phase on Venus.
Photo Details:
Camera: Canon 60D MagicLantern
4000mm
f/10
ISO: 640
Exposure: 1/640 sec per shot.
-Scott MacNeill
Melbourne Museum ... The Melbourne Story
At Luna Park, people had their photo taken "On the Moon" or "Riding the thrill rides".
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Met up with Ray Wise for a couple hours on Sunday afternoon, sunset was pretty poor and I didn't really get much, but I did like this one as the old wooden struts provide good leading lines. I will definitely be returning to this location again soon.
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A shot I captured of Saturn last night at Frosty Drew Observatory in Charlestown, Rhode Island, USA. This shot showcases Saturn's moons: Titan, Rhea, Dione, Tethys, and Enceladus.
Photo Details:
Camera: Canon 60D MagicLantern
Telescope: 16" SCT, f/10, 4000mm fl
Eyepiece: 15mm Plossl
Configuration: Eye piece projection to record 1080p video. Composite of best frames to capture Saturn.
Moons captured with same configuration but shot with:
ISO: 2500
Exposure: 1 second.
-Scott MacNeill
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This is a "Magic Lantern" projector manufactured by L.M.Prince, Cincinnati, Ohio. The lens is a 12" f/9 Bausch and Lomb. Light source is a 500W T20 Bulb.
Camera: Eastman View No. 2-D 8x10
Lens: Ilex Process Paragon 15"/9
Shutter: Packard
Exposure: 73 min. f/64
Single 300 W. bulb
Film: Arista Edu (Fomapan) 100 8x10
Tray Development: D-76 1+3 12 min. 75°. Continuous rocking of tray.
Scanned from contact print on Fomalux Contact RC Paper P10 developed in Dektol 1+2, bleached, redeveloped, and slightly bleached again.
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Canon 24-105mm
Magic lantern dualiso 100-800 iso
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This glass magic lantern slide illustrated the song "Come Josephine in my Flying Machine". FIrst published in 1910, it was a popular song for many years. This 3 1/4 X 4 inch slide was used for a sing along at a movie theatre or other gathering.
This slide shows a close up of the young pilot and his girl in a biplane. I love the brick wall on the left side beyond the "sky". Of course it is unlikely that we would believe that they were in the air and being photographed from another biplane even without it.