![]() Videos shot using TtV are known as "Meta Documentaries", an example of which was ShootingBack, by S. Many people find it more convenient to use these cameras for TtV photography than to use them with film. In addition, the popularity of digital photography and of on-line auction sites has led to a big increase in the number lot of older medium format TLRs and pseudo TLRs on the second hand market. The camcorder need not actually record, but may in fact be nothing more than a prop. Thus the wearer can capture a true and accurate depiction of what it is like to walk around with a camcorder, so that those viewing the documentary are, in effect, taken inside the eyecup of the camcorder viewfinder so they can vicariously experience the making of a documentary. a viewfinder for the viewfinder of the camcorder. In metadocumentary, the wearer of the glasses carries an ordinary camcorder and records the experience of looking through the viewfinder of the camcorder. covertly concealed in eyeglasses) may be used for meta documentary, such as when shooting a documentary about shooting a documentary. This embodiment., when manufactured in a wearable form (e.g. Mann, 1999), entitled "Eye-tap for electronic newsgathering, documentary video, photojournalism, and personal safety", describes this method of using 2 cameras, the first of which is a wearable camera, and the second camera is handheld, so as to record the experience of one camera looking through a second camera: It is thus much better suited to this type of photography/videography than most previously known cameras. Moreover, the EyeTap device captures exactly what the eye sees, and therefore can capture video recordings of anything that the human eye can look into. Both compact digital cameras and digital SLRs are able to focus on close objects without the need for extension tubes, and their autofocus function and digital viewing screen make it easy to focus and judge framing and exposure. Before the advent of digital photography it was necessary to use extension tubes to photograph a close-up object such as a viewfinder, and it was difficult to judge focusing precisely. The idea of photographing an image through the viewfinder of such a camera is relatively new, and TtV photography and filmography has come into use with the advent of digital cameras and EyeTap devices. These medium format cameras became less popular with the advent of 35mm SLRs and compact cameras in the 1960s and 1970s. Similar large, clear square viewfinders were popular in TLRs and pseudo TLRs until the mid-1960s. While waist-level viewfinders have been common in box cameras since the beginning of the 20th century, large viewfinders of the sort that are suitable for TtV photography became popular in the late 1920s and 1930s with medium format TLR and pseudo TLR cameras such as the Rolleiflex and the Voigtländer Brillant. The wearer of the EyeTap records what is seen while looking into the eyecup of the hand-held camera, resulting in what Mann refers to as a "Meta Documentary" (a documentary about making a documentary). The video is taken by EyeTap Generation-2 Glass (shown here worn by the mannequin) through the viewfinder of a hand-held video camera. Mann, LVAC (List Visual Arts Center), October 1997. Public exhibit on through the viewfinder videography, by S. They include the Ansco Anscoflex, Argus 75, Kodak Duaflex and Kodak Brownie. TLR models popular among TtV photographers have a brilliant type ('bubble glass') viewfinder. Most photographers use a cardboard tube or other apparatus connecting the two cameras in order to eliminate stray light and prevent reflections from appearing on the viewfinder glass or on the lens of the imaging camera.ĭepending on the model of TLR, the resulting image may have an old-fashioned feel to it, often with vignetting, blurred edges, distortion and dust. The image in a TLR viewfinder is laterally reversed, i.e. TLRs typically have square waist-level viewfinders, with the viewfinder plane at 90 degrees to the image plane. The most popular method involves using a digital camera as the image taking camera and an intact twin-lens reflex camera (TLR) or pseudo-TLR as the "viewfinder" camera. The viewfinder thus acts as a kind of lens filter. Through the Viewfinder ( TtV) photography is a photographic or videographic technique in which a photograph or video or motion picture film is shot with one camera through the viewfinder of a second camera. The two cameras are linked by a cardboard tube to block out extraneous light and avoid reflections from the Duaflex glass. ![]() The photograph is taken by a digital camera, top, through the viewfinder of a Kodak Duaflex box camera. ![]() ![]() Set-up for through the viewfinder photography.
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