[alt-photo] Re: photobooth: photos delivered here in 2-1/2 minutes

[Diana Bloomfield]

Hey Ryuji,

There was no attachment to your email, but those photo booths are still used today.  Lots of people rent them for weddings.  I'm *guessing* it's the same process that was used in the 60's, though they're in color now, too.  But if you look online, you can find where you can rent them.  For instance:  http://www.CarolinaPhotoBooths.com/

I can't tell you how they were/are designed, but I'm sure you can find out from these places that rent them.  Having had my picture made in the 60's- any number of times- with one of these-- they used to be all over the place, in department stores, boardwalk amusement parks, etc-- I do remember an intense flash, and I'm guessing it was on direct positive paper stock.  Purely guessing here.

Diana


On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Ryuji Suzuki wrote:

> I have a friend (also a neighbor and cinematographer) who tells me a story of a photobooth setup producing what looks like a b&w contact print of a strip of 4 pictures taken on film in 2.5 minutes. This must be from 60s or 70s. Does anyone have information about how these devices were generally designed, in terms of optics, lighting, film stock, processing, etc? I'm not sure if this is exposed on direct positive paper stock directly with intense flash, or is it a negative-positive process. If latter, it'd take 2.5 min just to develop pictorial film in D-19 or DK-50 or whatever. Does this use an instant film stock?
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> I'm attaching a small photo although I'm not sure if it gets delivered through the list.
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