Show; Many Beauties which The Naked Eye Cannot See By Chanbus K. Buss The cargo boat s. Koga Maru, owned and operated by the DKK. Line, is scheduled to sail from the company's Whangpoo Wharf this morning, bound for Dairen by way of Tsingtao and Tientsin. She made harbour early on Thursday from the northern ports.
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taken at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.LT.) with a nem slow-motion camera.
To realize what this means, you have fo know, that the normal silent cinefilm camera takes only 16 pictures per second, and a sound-movie mera takes 24 pictures per second. You will now believe that the MIT. camera must be highly complicated, because the mechanism of a film camera works in such a way, that ris transported when a shutter closes. the. u, and the film stands Coming from Yokohama, by way of Osaka and Kobe, the s. Myoho Maru, freighter of the TKK. Line, is eve to arrive in Shanghai early this morning. after being delayed two days. She is scheduled to sail again for Yokohama on October 2, after discharging her assorted cargo here. rhe 'L.Y.K. Line's fast freighter s. Husan Marb, operated by the N.Y.K. Line, is due to sail today at about 2 pam, from the Tox K. Ks Yangtszepoo Wharf. She arrived in Shanghai on Thursday from Zinsen, Korea, and Tsingtao. On her return voyage to Korea, the freighter, carrying general cargo, will call at Tsingtao.
Simple as The camera has no shutter and no standstill mechanism. The film is simply running at an enormous speed, up to 200 feet per second, behind the which is always open. The mystery is growing. Any picture taken with an open lens and a runging: Sia behind 1 without shutter.
standstill mechanism would be to produce continuous dark and light strips along The whole length of the film, but not a picture.
The problem is solved by producing a flash light in such a short time, that the film has practically not moved, although it runs at a terrific speed. A normal electric lamp is use-Jess for this purpose. You have noted it takes a certain time until the ent becomes white-hot, and the down of a lamp, when turned easily to be seen. Such a flash Yeo slow. The MIT. has used the of an are-discharge in mercury ation of the mercury the electric current and -ot -light takes place the one. ne speed as elec-about 186,000 miles per means that' the flash It takes only: the "part of a second. But how turned on and off at the right The Commutator 'This is a jle- wheel, made of insulting m which has a number of' small electric contacts on its circumference. The wheel runs to-with the film spools. Each time a contact of the wheel passes rae fixed contact, a flash occurs.
f flashes will occur at one reyutator wheel Mas 10 con-
Bob ge ud the commutator makes 10 the film is running at in ope second and a 1,000 pictures will be produced on the running film. This film is then projected in a pro-for with normal "speed, namely g only 16 pictures per second Sea Me a "slowstotion "never the MI, camera in one second (6,000 In this way, a motion taken with pictures), is produced on the screen ip six minutes and 15 seconds. The motion is extremely slowed down. To understand this fully, we have to know that the normal slow-motion yes, seen in the cinemas, are only with of about 64 to 128 pictures per id, instead of 6,000 pictures with the M.T. camera,
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