my father ran a photofinishing plant up until ~1980. And all I can say to a '2 mile long, 5 foot wide roll of film' is Holy F*ck.
although I was too young to see them, apparently some his employees kept a copy of 'homemade couple personal pics' as they came across the drying drum. On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 11:45 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Semi-related, I was just watching a YouTube video featuring an interview > with one of the pilots of the SR-71 Blackbird, undeniably the coolest > aircraft ever built. Anyway, when the nose was outfitted with the camera, > they shot on film... a 2 mile long, 5 foot wide roll of film. And while > there are several reasons the Blackbird doesn’t fly anymore, chief among > them is the effort it took to load and unload the film, then develop the > film. The film would have to be unrolled by hand and cut into shorter > lengths, all done without any debris or scratches on the film. Still, > coolest aircraft ever! I’ll take one of those over a drone any day > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:14 PM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> just a ramble..... But Tom suggested CBS using 8K for archival >> purposes. I'm sure they are using them to 'keep up with the curve and >> figure out how to use them and the associated data they produce'. >> >> I was having a work discussion on Friday night with one of our technology >> managers. I work at an engineering company and we design and manage the >> construction of mineral processing facilities, hydroelectric plants, and >> other such things. Engineering usually takes 2-3 years and construction >> and commissioning takes 5 years (partly overlapping the engineering). At >> the end of commissioning when we 'handover' the facility to the owner, we >> also hand over the engineering data (drawings, specification documents, and >> manuals in the 'old' days, but now models and other electronic data). It >> is growing to a crapload of data this days. >> >> I find this SD/HD/UHD/4k/8k topic to be very interesting and parallel. >> Someone (with the deep pockets) has to use the bleeding-edge technology to >> capture the data and store it the best they can. BBC obviously tried to >> learn about streaming it as well at 4k -- a great exercise to learn. who >> knows what video formats will 'rule' in 5 years. Do we all remember >> DIVX? my DVD player does. >> >> other parallel topics: financial systems programmed in COBOL. Science >> software programmed in FORTRAN. 1990/2000 stuff in Java. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 6:43 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 7:19 AM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Adam. That's a great BBC article. >>>> >>> >>> Going back to the original post, CBS could well be using 8K cameras for >>> archival purposes. Obviously all Super Bowls from the pre-HD era are in SD >>> and there is no format for better resolution. Maybe 8K will be the industry >>> standard and CBS will be able to stream a recording of the game in that >>> format. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
