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Three Histories: Roll Your Own

A Personal Look at Camera History Billy Bitzer and D.W. Griffith shooting Way Down East (1920). The bicycle lamp hanging off the right side of the camera was Bizer's anti-static totem. Have you ever picked up a new video camera, and, after a few minutes of trying to understand the illogical controls and poor ergonomics, muttered, “Who the hell designs these things?” A recent thread on the Cinematography Mailing List tried to make sense of one manufacturer's inexplicable decision to calibrate its focus ...

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