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Filming in Space [message #135664] Fri, 18 October 2013 16:21
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Originally posted by: @S1-A.ARPA,@MIT-MC.ARPA:WHOLEY@CMU-CS-C.ARPA
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 16:14:43 EDT
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From: Skef Wholey 

    From: kvue!spangler (Lance Spangler)

    That is, the feed reel and the take up reel literally sat on top of each
    other, with a small hub between each to take care of the difference in reel
    speed.

    I'm sure Arriflex or who ever is making the motion picture cameras for NASA
    these days could whip one out.

A big point Arri is making in its advertisements lately is that the Arri
cameras used for these (non-IMAX) films are "off-the-shelf" equipment.  An
interesting article on filming aboard the shuttle appears in a recent issue of
American Cinematographer (May 1985, I think).  These are the first
off-the-shelf cameras ever used by NASA, and they finally seem to have accepted
that they needn't build their own.

The article doesn't mention the gyroscoping problem, so maybe it wasn't as big
a problem (at least for the 16mm cameras) as some think.  Or maybe the author
wasn't ready to explain physics to a bunch of movie people.
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