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2 unusual facts about photographic film


Gogu Neagoe

Gogu Neagoe entered the Guinness World Records a second time by drawing celebrities and politicians in 1,200,000 images on 12 36mm film rolls, measuring 2 km in length, and weighing 3 tons.

Safune

Flaherty exposed about 240,000 feet of negative on the Safune family, a large amount of footage developed and printed by hand in a cave with two Samoan boys who had no prior film training.


Flight recorder

One of the earliest and proven attempts was made by François Hussenot and Paul Beaudouin in 1939 at the Marignane flight test center, France; they were essentially photograph-based flight recorders since the record was made on a scrolling photographic film.

Sodium thiosulfate

In this application to photographic processing, discovered by John Herschel and used for both film and photographic paper processing, the sodium thiosulfate is known as a photographic fixer, and is often referred to as hypo, from the original chemical name, hyposulphite of soda.


see also

Callier effect

The directed bright-field (see Fig. 1) has extremely strong directional characteristics by means of a point source and an optical system (condenser); in this case, each point of the photographic film receives light from only one direction.

Collodion process

The sensitivity of silver halides to light is the underlying principle behind most types of 19th century photographic processes (Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Calotypes that use paper negatives, and wet and dry plates) as well as modern 20th century photographic film processes.

FP4

FP4 plus, a black-and-white photographic film by Ilford Photo, latest version being called FP4 Plus or FP4+

Lucas Samaras

He has worked with multi-media collages, and by manipulating the wet dyes in Polaroid photographic film to create what he calls "Photo-Transformations".

NPZ

Fujicolor Pro 800Z, a photographic film previously known as Fujicolor NPZ 800

Wolfen

Original Wolfen (ORWO), the trademark name of a German photographic film manufacturer