Re: re: fiber pinhole

>Mike Vande Bunt wrote:
>>
>> If the effect were totally random, fibers would
>> not be able to transmit an image even with a lens system. Since
>> they clearly can, I believe that the image transmitted by a single
> > fiber is coherent enough to form a pinhole style image...
>>

Have you ever seen a movie where the camera dollies through a small space?
a space far too small to fit a motion picture camera in? Like a
doughnut? or down the barrel of a gun?
These shots are often done with what is known as a "shotgun" lens. (Not SFX.)
It's a fixed F-stop, fiber-optic lens, about 1/4" wide, that
derives it's name from the long thin tube that all the fibers are
housed in.
Considering that this negative is eventually blown up to movie screen
size, possibly through several generations, it's apparent that fibers
can (one way or another) definately be used as a lens - even a high
quality one.
But, for all that, I still can't tell you how.....
you're on your own guys.
E . G.
Received on Thu Apr 12 13:49:26 2001