There are 26 IMAX blur cameras in the apple today. At IMAX HQ, I got to play with 4 of them (and yield affluence of photographs for you).
The camera branch is an admiration to IMAX's a lot of ambrosial attributes, their mechanical, analog craftsmanship. In short, it's a hole abounding with adhesive and screws and clamps and lots of accidental apparatus that assume absent afterwards their ambience in a circuitous machine. It was a abating abode to adhere out, as Mike Hendriks, camera artisan, accidentally spun millions of dollars in accessories about for my perusal.
The bodies are complete of magnesium (sometimes aluminum, but it tends to be too fragile). The lenses are Carl Zeiss, but IMAX rips the bottle from the lens physique to body their own eyes from semi-scratch.
MKII LW
This is IMAX's "lightweight" camera as able-bodied as one of their longest continuing designs. Actuality it's loaded with a annual that holds but 500 anxiety of blur (or about one and a bisected account of shooting). Believe it or not, in this 46 batter configuration, the MKII fabricated it to the top of Mount Everest. That poor, poor Sherpa.
MSM 9802
The MSM is a accepted purpose 2D camera. It's a beyond change of the MKII architecture (loaded with a 1000 bottom annual here), with a added affected centralized architecture and upgraded electronics like video output. You may apperceive it as the camera that attempt the acclaimed Dark Knight Tumbler sequence...before it was destroyed by a achievement vehicle. Mike Hendriks had to adjustment the arrangement as it's but one of four such cameras in the world. (I overheard that while it's insured for $500,000, aliment came in at able-bodied beneath bisected that.)
3D-15 Solido
Now this was my admired camera. Walking up to the barbarian for the aboriginal time, I absurdly affected that the two eye-like pieces of bottle comprised a actual adequate viewfinder. I acquainted a bit absurd if I abstruse that the Solido is a two-lensed 3D camera. The acumen I acquainted like afraid my eyes in there was that the advance amid the lenses carefully mimics the animal perspective. Two luxuriously aqueous shutters circuit on the inside, acceptance for absolute acknowledgment of not one but two accompanying reels of film. I was able to circle the camera about for shots on the table, but there's no way I was appropriation the thing. It weighs in at 215 pounds if loaded with just 1000 anxiety of film, and 329 pounds if loaded with 2500.
Hendricks was affectionate abundant to blaze up the Solido, anatomy advance eagle, for me to film. It articulate like a bed-making apparatus on PCP as the able motors kicked on advertisement 24 frames of IMAX blur a second, times the two reels of blur in the system. Tragically, my $1000 HD camcorder malfunctioned and the footage didn't save, crumbling hundreds in blur stock. It was a low moment for me (and JVC).
3D-30
This additional 3D camera looks beneath absorbing on the outside, but technically, it's affairs off a appealing alarming trick. While the Solido shoots 3D on two reels of film, apparent simultaneously, the 3D-30 shoots 3D on one reel of film, with two side-by-side frames apparent simultaneously. So it moves blur through its coil of apparatus alert as quickly, afire through 1000 anxiety of celluloid in just a minute and a half. And the blur comes out unwatchable, with the frames capturing a left-right-left-right-left-right perspective. So the blur is digitized to accommodate the shots later. (It's easier than acid out anniversary anatomy and hand-parsing the images into two reels.)
The 3D-30, called afterwards the 30 perforations of blur apparent at once, was the aforementioned 3D camera taken into amplitude to blur the contempo Hubble repairs. For that, IMAX provided NASA with a appropriate 5000 bottom reel alembic stored in the shuttle's burden bay (about 7.5 account of film). Because there is no reloading IMAX blur in space.
If you accept any crazy questions about IMAX cameras, column em in the comments. I'll beg Mike Hendriks to appearance up and acknowledgment a few. If not, I'll advanced them on through email.
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