A Report on the 12th International Congress on High-Speed Photography
Lincoln L. Endelman · SMPTE Journal · 1976
greatest attraction.Super-8 Sound Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., has its Crystal Camera Control and Sync Generator units for a range of cameras; its new Recorder I1 can function as location recorder, studio dubber and final transfer unit.Cinesync of Paris in its Electra system has the Auto Quartz and Diamant radio control of synchronization, and its Sono-Studio unit provides corresponding transfer and editing features.And of course fully professional multi-path editing tables are now available for Super-8, the established KEM and Steenbeck range now being joined by Cinecraft's MKM Model 824, the Schmid Diploma I1 and the EM 800 from CTM of Levallois. Audio-visualFor the audio visual user there was such an enormous range of slide projectors and equipment for synchronization and multi-screen presentation thateeven enumeration is impracticable.However, the new Electrosonic cartridge player-decoder should be mentioned with its provision for the immediate selection of two alternative programs of picture or three sound versions.Normally, dissolves between slides requires the use of a pair of coupled projectors but the new Rollei P3800 has twin lenses in one body, using only a single slide magazine but having two separate slide stages and optical systems.The dissolve time between successive slides can be set from to 6 s, and for automatic operation a slide change interval between 4 and 30 s can be selected.Slide projectors using the 1 10 frame size were not numerous, but a new application visitors stopped by and requested information about the Society's goals, services and organization.Thousands picked up our literature.Shown here are Wilhelm Roth (I.), Editor of the Fernseh-und Kim-Technik, the German counterpart to the Jounml, and Pablo Weinschenk-Taberwro (r.), Motion Picture Engineer from SMITE Headquarters.There was great interest in the Society and its activities.