Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not only is Dr. No in color, but when you see the new restored DVD and Blu-Ray, it's gorgeous color. I was really struck by its color in a recent viewing, the early part of the film especially evoked an old world style where filmmakers had technicolor consultants on hand to make sure every scene had a full and pleasing complement of colors. -rei On 08/11/2010 02:28 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I bet somebody big money Dr. NO the first James Bond film was in black and > white. Why would I think that? I lost a whole dollar I think on that > fiasco. > > Underneath the mango tree > Me honey and me can watch for the moon > Underneath the mango tree > Me honey and me make boolooloop soon > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > mark at rabinergroup.com > > >> From: Rei Shinozuka<shino at panix.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:10:05 -0400 >> To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Nixies >> >> On 08/10/2010 08:20 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >>> Rei, >>> >>> Indeed you are right. I'm always amused when bad guys in movies trigger >>> off >>> a state of the art nuclear device and the time to detonation is shown on >>> Nixie tubes, a half century old technology. >> My vague recollection was that the display in the Goldfinger Fort Knox >> nuke was composed of three Nixies (you remember, that countdown that >> ultimately stops at 0-0-7), but after careful reviewing this is not the >> case. The digits in the film were well-formed like Nixies and were >> definitely stacked in depth like Nixies, but the illumination was >> clearly not the continuous cathodes of the Nixie. >> >> Google and Wikipedia, as usual, were my friends: >> >> ".. the atomic bomb countdown display in Goldfinger was another >> technology from the same period: edge-lit lightguide readouts. These use >> small incandescent light bulbs at the edges of plates of clear plastic >> stacked together with narrow gaps between them. In each plate, a single >> numeral is formed from a series of "dimples" drilled from the back side. >> The plates are assembled in a holder so that their edges are not easily >> seen. A bulb shining in one edge will cause little or no light to be >> emitted from the smooth faces, due to the optical phenomenon known as >> "total internal reflection". However, the drilled dimples are at a less >> obtuse angle to the approaching light rays, and have rough surfaces, >> therefore scatter the light more nearly perpendicular to the plane of >> the plates' front surfaces, where it can escape to be seen by the >> viewer. Thus, the digits appear as a group of bright white dots >> apparently floating in a small dark space without any visible support. >> Contrast this with nixies, which display figures as continuous lines >> broken only by the fine anode mesh and the lines of other digits which >> may lie in front of the lit digit, always glow in the pink-orange-red >> range, and are usually placed behind red or dark orange filters to >> enhance contrast. Although the white(ish) light of edge-lit displays >> could be filtered to any desired color, historically this was almost >> never done." >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ANixie_tube#Were_these_in_Goldfinger.3F >> >> Here's a guy who made a clock out of edge-lit display technology and LED >> illumination: >> >> http://users.rcn.com/ted.johnson/erc_clock.htm >> >> >> YLSNED (You learn something new every day.) >> >> -rei >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information