Daniel García
12-23-2009, 12:30 PM
Hi, I just read this here (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/ff_avatar_cameron/all/1), regarding the development of the Pace/Cameron Fusion camera system...
Sony agreed to establish a new line of cameras, and, using the prototype, Pace set to work. After three months, he had fitted the lenses into a rig that allowed an operator to precisely control the 3-D imaging. He figured they’d start with a simple test using an actor or two, but Cameron had other ideas. He asked Pace to install the gear in a rented World War II-era P-51 fighter and then sent him up in a B-17 Flying Fortress. Cameron jumped in behind the pilot of the P-51 and once airborne started filming while the pilot fired .50-caliber machine gun blanks at Pace’s B-17. “It was my first taste of what Jim considers ‘testing,’” Pace says.
And this had to happen around year 2000/2001 so, for those who thought Peter Jackson's camera prototype tests using World War I war paraphernalia were unprecedented... you were wrong! Cameron did it first with WWII, in 3D! :biggrin:
Sorry but this was the perfect forum to comment this :)
Sony agreed to establish a new line of cameras, and, using the prototype, Pace set to work. After three months, he had fitted the lenses into a rig that allowed an operator to precisely control the 3-D imaging. He figured they’d start with a simple test using an actor or two, but Cameron had other ideas. He asked Pace to install the gear in a rented World War II-era P-51 fighter and then sent him up in a B-17 Flying Fortress. Cameron jumped in behind the pilot of the P-51 and once airborne started filming while the pilot fired .50-caliber machine gun blanks at Pace’s B-17. “It was my first taste of what Jim considers ‘testing,’” Pace says.
And this had to happen around year 2000/2001 so, for those who thought Peter Jackson's camera prototype tests using World War I war paraphernalia were unprecedented... you were wrong! Cameron did it first with WWII, in 3D! :biggrin:
Sorry but this was the perfect forum to comment this :)