How Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1of 3 - Film Support) - Smarter Every Day 271
Added 2022-03-19 14:47:57 +0000 UTCThis was an amazing opportunity. I hope you enjoy it! As an added bonus for being a Patron, I thought you'd enjoy the attached images. They're FILM images of the world's first DIGITAL camera (which was made by Kodak). I took the photos in haste because I was in a hurry, but it's still a VERY interesting concept! I wonder if the people that invented the digital camera ever thought a guy would be coming back to their facility to talk about the film production process?
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Warm Regards,
Destin
Comments
I learn so much from you Destin. I had no idea film was so complicated and precise!
Traci Stephenson
2022-07-21 22:34:29 +0000 UTCFinally got to watching this. Very, very cool. I was surprised to see a cassette tape on the side of that camera, but, duh, it’s the most obvious solution for a cheap, portable digital recording medium in ‘75.
EpicWolverine
2022-06-20 15:51:26 +0000 UTCHe did. There was a No Dumb Questions episode about that whole experience.
EpicWolverine
2022-06-20 15:47:41 +0000 UTCI am so excited about the next two parts. I have watched this four times now, I don't know why I love this process so much, but I do
2022-04-26 23:04:58 +0000 UTCGreat video Destin. I've got a couple old Canon cameras I need to dust off and start using again.
2022-04-05 01:38:17 +0000 UTCIt is interesting to see your take on how film works. Back in the 80's I was working with a stop motion animator. He had a technique to make motion blur in stop motion shots by shooting multiple exposures on the same frame and moving the part that needed blur, like a puppet arm. The problem was that 3 one second exposures did not match 1 3 second exposure. And 3 exposures 1 second apart were different than 3 exposures 30 seconds apart. I was tasked with solving for a way to make a controller to do triple frame exposures with the least amount of exposure breathing. It was quite an adventure learning about things like reciprocity failure. I fell down the rabbit hole to learn how film worked at the molecular level. A handy book that I hope you have is Neblett's handbook of photography and reprography. If you don't have a copy be careful about getting one, you might look up several days later after reading the whole thing. I'm waiting with baited breath for the next installment.
2022-04-02 04:11:30 +0000 UTCI really enjoyed watching how excited you were about this video!
2022-03-30 20:21:08 +0000 UTCThis is so cool!
2022-03-28 06:00:53 +0000 UTCi like it very interesting
Ben Oliver
2022-03-26 11:15:54 +0000 UTCThere is so much technology at work there to make that one element of the final product! Really cool that they gave you access to the plant. I have worked on high speed Kodak digital printers (300 images a minute) for many years. The solutions they created for those machines still work pretty well almost 30 years later.
Mr. Hunter Jones
2022-03-25 23:38:38 +0000 UTCThe important question is did you eat a garbage plate while you were in Rochester?
Derek Erdmann
2022-03-25 17:47:06 +0000 UTC
