I remember reading about the turbo boost being cranked up. Didn't the camera rig weigh eighty pounds? The footage from that shoot is extraordinary. To watch the camera sled accelerate around Michael Andretti's car is awesome. Every once ina while I have to pop it in the DVD, crank up the volume on the surround sound, and watch it. A lot of the audio and video equipment companies have used it as a demo piece. Perhaps they still do. Paul
> > Not just 70mm - they shoot 70mm running horizontally, so the 70mm > limits the *height* of the frame, not the width. > > The camera sled was, as you mention, a standard [CART] Indy Car, > mostly driven by Mario Andretti. But what you may not know is > that the pop-off valve for the car was wired shut, so it was > running with considerably more turbo boost (and thus horsepower) > than the other cars on the track. Mario had a lot of fun with it. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mused: > > > > I think the IMAX cameras shoot 70mm in the camera. One of the most > > technically > excellent DVDs I've ever seen is the IMAX produced Mario Andretti > documentary. > They mounted an IMAX camera on an Indy car. The images are spectacular. The > surround sound is awesome as well. > > Paul > > > > > > > On 18/12/04, Graywolf, discombobulated, unleashed: > > > > > > >It may be posible to addapt some old 35mm fix focal length motion > > > >pictures > > > >lenses to the istD. They would be fairly cheap (most of them, used), but > > > >I think > > > >it would take at least as much machining as on Cottys Pentax to EOS mod. > > > > > > hey, how about an old Russian movie industry 70mm camera (sic). Yes 70mm > > > in the camera. Unbelievable. They must have had some interesting lenses. > > > > > > Instead of the US standard of shooting 35 and blowing up to 70 for cinema > > > distribution... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Cotty > > > > > > > > > ___/\__ > > > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > > > ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com > > > _____________________________ > > > > > > > > >
