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Subject: [Leica] Leica Sighting in "Coraline"
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:42:19 -0400
References: <C6B0E476.5316A%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark - Hadn't thought about defocussing.  It sounds like it might  
help.  I just found a distance at which the moire was minimized.  I  
can see every pixel of the TV screen in the original shot.

Regards,

Dick



On Aug 18, 2009, at 11:06 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> Coraline used an M3 to take pictures of her friend in this scene,
>> about the last thing I expected to see in a cartoon drama.  There  
>> must
>> have been a Leica fan on the animation team.  When the camera cut  
>> to a
>> through the finder view, there was the single M3 50 mm frame line  
>> just
>> where it belonged (though stretched to 16:9, for artistic purposes, I
>> suppose).  She's left eyed, too.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/misc/300_5353.jpg.html
>>
>> Taking pictures off the TV set was easy once I realized you had to
>> move the camera in and out from the screen until you found a distance
>> (actually magnification, I suppose) that defeats the moire.  Screen
>> capture is not allowed from DVDs in a Mac.
>>
>> "Coraline" was great fun, BTW.  I really enjoyed it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick
>>
>
>
> Don't defeat the moir?.
> You must go to the moir?.
> Tell moir? Mark sent ya.
>
> It's in focus if you get the moir? I think.
> That's the pixels you've nailed.
> They wont dance around so much in the final image.
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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