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From the Golden Age
From the Golden Age
jbirkman


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Challenge: Puzzle Macro IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi
Lens: Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
Location: Hollywood
Date: Feb 15, 2011
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 100
Shutter: 8.0 sec
Galleries: Macro
Date Uploaded: Feb 15, 2011

 This is a film editing synchronizer. This item is rarely, if ever, used any more in the digital age. The title relates to the sprocket teeth used to position the film. I did leave clues in the shot like the "Hollywood" text on the frame and the clip of mag film in background.

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Statistics
Place: 73 out of 158
Avg (all users): 5.4444
Avg (commenters): 6.1250
Avg (participants): 5.2394
Avg (non-participants): 5.6438
Views since voting: 629
Views during voting: 324
Votes: 144
Comments: 28
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 03/02/2011 04:30:16 PM
I wonder if this would have done better if people knew what it was? Then it would have a sense of scale.
 02/27/2011 08:50:12 PM
73rd?????? Are you kidding me? I gave you a 10 and expected you to win. Your picture sticks in my head, it is so great. I came in 110...so a picture of a make-up brush beat ours? It is amazing to me sometimes the pictures that do well.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/27/2011 06:33:01 PM
Charlie Chaplin's hat in Technicolor.
 02/27/2011 12:49:47 PM
Is it some kind of film projector?
 02/26/2011 04:44:06 PM
An old film projector??
 02/26/2011 08:31:59 AM
tape player
 02/25/2011 11:43:36 PM
Film developer
 02/25/2011 05:51:55 PM
Film projector
 02/25/2011 08:15:57 AM
Difficult to judge size but very well handled
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 02/23/2011 06:52:00 PM
inside of a movie projector
 02/23/2011 04:59:13 PM
part of a projector...where the film runs through...Hollywood and the filmstrip in the background gave it away for me...good job
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 02/23/2011 04:23:30 PM
Gears from a clock? Nah. But some kind of gears anyway.
 02/23/2011 10:35:07 AM
old camera workings
 02/23/2011 09:28:44 AM
Film Projector or flim editing machine??
 02/23/2011 06:16:46 AM
Guess: a movie projector
 02/22/2011 06:37:00 PM
Old school moving pictures editing device - cool! This is a total guess; I hope I'm close - 7
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 02/22/2011 04:08:35 PM
I can clearly see it. But I don't know what it is.
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 02/22/2011 03:58:44 PM
Wow – very interesting! With the Hollwood in the caste and the film in the background I’m thinking this maybe an old film editing machine of some sort.
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 02/22/2011 03:44:08 PM
Equipment for winding film, or if not film then whatever that strip is at the top of the photo that has perforations along each side. I'd love to know what the numbers represent.
 02/22/2011 12:32:01 PM
Film reel
 02/22/2011 07:59:33 AM
It's a gilded Hollywood movie machine cog - numbered.
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 02/22/2011 06:14:07 AM
Film Projector/editor
 02/22/2011 03:35:48 AM
looks like something to be pressed flat between the rollers...hmmmmaybe pasta?
 02/21/2011 04:36:39 PM
Part of a combination lock
 02/21/2011 11:20:49 AM
Film editor/projector.
 02/21/2011 06:51:09 AM
Is this a film projector? It doesn't really look like a macro to me.
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 02/21/2011 01:40:17 AM
Interesting shot of an interesting subject. Would have preferred something less saturated but it works with the title.
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 02/20/2011 07:30:14 PM
Voting Later guessing first: Gears of somesort, I only know its not a clock.


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