Szczepanik Colour Camera
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LicenseSzczepanik colour camera, 1925. Busch, Rathenow
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Szczepanik colour camera, 1925. Busch, Rathenow
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Szczepanik colour camera, 1925. Busch, Rathenow
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Szczepanik colour camera, 1925. Busch, Rathenow
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Szczepanik colour camera, 1925. Busch, Rathenow
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Szczepanik colour camera, 1925. Busch, Rathenow
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Szczepanik colour camera, 1925. Busch, Rathenow
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Szczepanik colour camera, 1925. Busch, Rathenow
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Szczepanik colour camera, 1925. Busch, Rathenow. For 35mm film in Parvo-type internal magazines with crank handle. Belt of 18 small lenses with red, green and blue filters on moving belt; indivisual iris settings (f/2.5 - f/8). Band turned; folding optical frame finder; film speed dial 0-50 frames per second. Meter indicator 0-120mm. Through-film critical focusing.
The Szczpanik system is an early colour system in which the film is moved through the camera continuously (rather than intermittently) during which it is exposed through a series of 18 lenses carried on an endless belt moving in sync with the film. These lenses were fitted in sequence with red, green and blue filters for the primary colours. The projector worked in a similar way, so that the image on the screen was made up of superimposed red, green and blue pictures. Apparently the process had various problems, including flicker and colour balance and wasnot a commercial success.
Details
- Category:
- Cinematography
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/7855
- Materials:
- wood (unidentified), metal (unknown), brass (copper, zinc alloy), leather and glass
- Measurements:
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deployed: 243 mm x 250 mm x 390 mm,
- type:
- motion picture camera
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford