The use of computer technology in Magicam slave camera systems
Dan Slater, Rob King, John C. Gale · 1980
With both the complexity of motion picture scenery and costs increasing, the motion picture industry is looking for cost effective methods to produce the desired film images. One approach is to inset actors into miniature sets. Maintaining correct perspective relationships between the scene components is critical to the illusion. Magicam has developed a unique system which automatically maintains a real time perspective match between scene components under dynamic conditions. This unit in essence simulates a 6 degree of freedom pantograph coupling 2 cameras at different scene scale factors.