5x7 camera with a slow vertical focal plane shutter. That kind of distortion was so prevalent that by the 30's it had become a cartoon stereotype to indicate speed. Panning the camera is what is causing the people in the background to tilt the other way.
Bob W wrote: > Hint: J H Lartigue > > http://arts.guardian.co.uk/pictures/image/0,8543,-10404954434,00.html > > ...although the wheels aren't oblong. Don't know what kind of > distortion would do that! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
