If you ever wondered where the ‘reflex’ in Single Lens Reflex comes from, take a look at this video. What you’ll see is Nikon’s new D700, naked but for an MB-D10 battery pack, mirror flapping in the wind for…
If you ever wondered where the ‘reflex’ in Single Lens Reflex comes from, take a look at this video. What you’ll see is Nikon’s new D700, naked but for an MB-D10 battery pack, mirror flapping in the wind for everybody to see. And it’s fast, flipping up and down eight times per second.
Try to envision, if you will, a camera doing just this, only faster, and with the addition of a film speeding through the gate. Dizzying. Canon actually built a camera that would speed through nine frames per second back in 1972: The Canon F-1 High Speed Motor Drive Camera. That’s an entire 36 exposure roll in just four seconds, even though the mirror on this custom model didn’t flip — it was a fixed pellicle mirror, which stayed in place during the exposure.
Video [Imaging Resource via Photography Bay]
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