{"id":15421,"date":"2019-08-27T05:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T09:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=15421"},"modified":"2019-08-26T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:50:52","slug":"blinding-me-with-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/blinding-me-with-science\/","title":{"rendered":"… blinding me with science …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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B&H ad in LIFE Magazine September 16, 1957<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. The second release of Thomas Dolby<\/a>‘s CD “The Golden Age of Wireless” (after the song “She’s Blinding Me With Science<\/em><\/a>” became a hit single in 1982 and was added to the CD) was the inspiration for this post. \u00a0In August of 1983, I was in Atlantic City, NJ on a week long security conference. As I wandered around one of the many casino’s, I heard a familiar tune – it was a small group covering Dolby’s famous song.<\/p>\n

George Dunbar spotted this 1957 ad<\/a> for a Bell & Howell 8mm movie camera (p145) using an electric eye mechanism to adjust exposure as the bright daylight shifted in intensity with the clouds and shadows.<\/p>\n

The ad touted a “computer” that translated light into movement of the aperture. The tiny 8mm film demanded a short focal length lens which by the laws of physics has a wide depth of field regardless of the normal range of apertures. I don’t ever recall seeing a camera with coloured electric eye cells, but that may have been me since I tended to ignore 8mm movie cameras in those days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. The second release of Thomas Dolby‘s CD “The Golden Age of Wireless” (after the song “She’s Blinding Me With Science” became a hit single in 1982 and was added to the CD) was the inspiration for this post. \u00a0In … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1983],"tags":[1786,1037,2748,425,2747],"class_list":["post-15421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine","tag-8mm","tag-bell-howell","tag-electric-eye","tag-life","tag-movie-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15425,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421\/revisions\/15425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}