first - check this out: http://youtu.be/ViDZkrYRJyo?list=UU0oxE ... LKCsEL43wA - note the strobing effect on the train windows...
this may be from cam or transition to the tube - i do not know but my guess is that with a film shoot things would have come out better - the strobing seems to kind of stop the train.
this is a train currently undergoing tests in Japan and i shot this clip during my visit there.
the SCMAGLEV train passes at 500 km/h and the building was pushed backwards when the train passed.
this train was tested to 581 km/h in 2003.
a track is planned between Tokyo and Osaka - a distance of about 500 km at a estimated cost of $100 billion.
JR has offered a loan to USA to be used to build a similar train solution between Washington and NY. travel time would be 1 hour.
so what may be the connection to a film technology?
Well, the MLX01 SCMAGLEV technology is pretty unique in the way that the super conducting magnets are super conducting in normal temperatures an do not need to be cooled down to -170°C or so to be super conducting. that is pretty astonishing.
i draw a thin line to the late 70s when the Canon 1014 XLS was built. this was a super advanced camera launched just when the Super8 swan song set in.
very different from the prospect of MLX01 but anyhow a parallel showing a small taste of japanese high end technology now and then but of course there are and were a lot more than this.
anywayhow, shoot film.
oh that reminded me to place an order for s8 films - next time i will bring my film camera to Japan.
suppose you remember this guy to:http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~s8mmeiga/page035.html for a reference...
