[Leica] Bat Bending Strength: The Ted Gran Effect?

[Mark Rabiner]

The horizontal or vertical focal plane shutter can make for some real
Einsteinian in the train effects but to me the real odd ones came from the
diaphragm  or leaf shutter. Seems to make for a time space warp you can
really wrap your head around. If your Gumby


On 5/10/15 12:18 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:

> Ha!  No electronics involved in that one.  I was thinking of those
> images as well.  The Leica handbooks of the 1950s, which I have
> somewhere, use a similar image to demonstrate what can happen as the
> horizontally-traveling slit passes across the film opening, recording a
> moving wheel-type image.  All purely mechanical.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> On 5/10/2015 11:06 AM, Philippe wrote:
>> It is due to the electronic shutter
>> 
>> Lartigue invented it ;-)
>> http://www.exponaute.com/magazine/2012/10/01/art-et-automobile-un-siecle-dins
>> piration/
>> 
>> I'm serious Philippe
>> 
>> 
>> Le 10 mai 2015 à 17:47, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> 
>>> Trying out the M 135 f/3.4 ASPH on a Fuji X-T1, as a potential longish lens
>>> solution. This visual phenom occurred (no photoshop!).
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rgacpa_HI/Bat+Bending+Strength-2015-05-09.j
>>> pg.html
>>> 
>>> Ted Grant has an image, "Martha," that seems to be somewhat similar to this
>>> effect:
>>> http://tedgrantphoto.com/Martha.htm
>>> 
>>> I think Ted has never been able to explain why this happened: he knows what
>>> he was doing when he took the image, but how it happened eludes him.
>>> 
>>> Perhaps nothing to do with Ted's effect, but interesting...
>>> 
>>> BTW, this is your Mother's Day photo quiz: knowing the equipment, do you
>>> know why this happened?
>>> 
>>> Happy mother's day to all the amazing moms out there!!
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Bob Adler
>>> www.robertadlerphotography.com
>>> 
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