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

[Richard Knoppow]

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From: "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs at silvergrain.org>
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Subject: [alt-photo] photobooth: photos delivered here in 
2-1/2 minutes


>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?
>
> I'm attaching a small photo although I'm not sure if it 
> gets delivered through
> the list.

     I am pretty sure these used direct-positive paper and 
probably worked about like the street photographers cameras. 
The ones I remember from when I was a kid delivered sepia 
images which may be a clue as to the process.  They were 
found in many places.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com