Photographic guns
Fusil fotográfico
- Date
- 1882 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Étienne Jules Marey
- Field
- Communication
What it is
A gun-shaped camera devised by French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey, able to capture twelve images per second on a single photographic plate via a rotating metal shutter; a direct forerunner of the movie camera.
What it led to
- development of chronophotography to study human and animal movement
- direct technical precursor of the cinema camera
- influence on Eadweard Muybridge's studies and on biomechanics
- advances in shutter mechanisms and film transport