#slit camera

[aldobranti]

time is a flexible commodity, you have more or less of it than you expect and besides what time is it?

[wobblebox5]

Claudio, Stella e Farfalla. Cetona, Italy. by Jay Mark Johnson. (via Jay Mark Johnson’s very unusual camera emphasizes time over space | Slate)

[photojojo]

This photo was shot with a slit camera! 

The Slate explains it well:

Jay Mark Johnson uses a slit camera that emphasizes time over space. Whatever remains still is smeared into stripes, while the motion of crashing waves, cars...are registered moment by moment, as they pass his camera by. 

Like an EKG showing successive heartbeats, the width of an object corresponds not to distance or size, but the rate of movement. Viewing the left side of the picture is not looking leftward in space but backward in time.

A Camera That Shoots Time

[minusmanhattan]

Claudio, Stella e Farfalla by Jay Mark Johnson. 

From Design Boom:

specially built slit camera that emphasizes time over space.motion manifested as a moving car, a dancer or crashing waves is translated into sweeping bands of color as the movement passes by the camera.similar to an EKG showing sequential heartbeats, an object is registered by the rate of movement as opposed to distance or size so thatviewing the image from the left side is effectively viewing backward in time. the project began when johnson purchased an $85,000 rotating slit-scan camera for high-resolution panoramas and noticed the accidental peculiar effects the device was capable of,from this he tested stopping the rotation and focusing in on one small area.

[breakthruradiotv]

After seeing these photos by Jay Mark Johnson, we're thinking we could really use a slit-scan camera around here.