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Encyclopedia > Animation camera
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An animation camera manufactured by Crass, Berlin, in 1957.
An animation camera manufactured by Crass, Berlin, in 1957.

An animation camera, a type of rostrum camera, is a movie camera specially adapted for frame-by-frame shooting animation or stop motion. It consists of a camera body with lens and film magazines, a stand that allows the camera to be raised and lowered, and a table, often with both top and underneath lighting. The artwork to be photographed is placed on this table. Image File history File links Merge-arrows. ... Image File history File links Animationcamera. ... Image File history File links Animationcamera. ... A rostrum camera is a specially adapted camera used in television and film to animate a still picture or object. ... The Arricam ST, a popular 35 mm film camera currently used on major productions. ... In film, video production, animation, and related fields, a frame is one of the many still images which compose the complete moving picture. ... The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. ... Stop motion is an animation technique which makes things that are static appear to be moving. ...


Since most animation is now produced digitally, new animation cameras are not widely manufactured. Video cameras and scanners have taken their place.

Contents

Examples of professional animation cameras (35 and 16 mm)

A partial list of manufacturers of animation cameras includes:

  • Acme Tool and Manufacturing (USA)
  • Crass (Germany)
  • Neilson-Hordell (UK)
  • Oxberry (USA)
  • Double M Industries (USA)
  • A.I.A. Productions (USA)

The Bell & Howell 2709 (Design 27, first made in 1909) is the prototype of the Acme, and the Acme is the prototype of the Oxberry. Each employs a fixed pin and "shuttle" movement mechanism for film registration and film advancement, respectively. Other names associated with Acme were Producer's Service Corporation and Photo-Sonics. Categories: Corporation stubs ... The intermittent mechanism (or movement) is the device by which film is regularly advanced and then held in place for a brief duration of time in a movie camera or movie projector. ...


Super 8

In addition, many consumer-grade Super 8 home movie cameras made in the 1960s and 1970s had single-frame, and therefore, animation, capability. Their wide availability on the used market (along with the continued manufacture of Super 8 film) make them a viable low-cost alternative to specialized animation cameras when paired with a suitable animation stand (copy stands are often adapted to this purpose). Kodachrome 40 KMA464P Super 8 Cartridge Super 8 mm film, also simply called Super 8, is a motion picture film format that was developed in the 1960s and released on the market in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older 8 mm home movie format, and the... Home movie, referring to any private or amateur motion picture photographic product shot and printed in any movie film format. ...


16 mm

The 16 mm Bolex camera is often used for amateur and semi-professional single frame filming, either using its built-in spring drive, or an attached electric single-frame motor[1] A Bolex H16 Reflex spring-wound clockwork16 mm camera Bolex is a Swiss company (Bolex International S.A. of Yverdon) that manufactures motion picture cameras and lenses, the most notable products of which are in the 16 mm and Super 16 mm formats. ...


References

  1. ^ Stop Motion Motor for Bolex

External links

  • Animation camera movement mechanisms, from the personal website of a Finnish animator

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