Re: how much of what we see is black?

From: Lisa Oppenheim (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2007 - 12:37:22 PDT


Might not be so bad to see the darkness in plain sight sometimes...
Lisa
On Oct 30, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Tony Conrad wrote:

> Don't worry. We don't see any darkness.
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> -----t0ny
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> Quoting Yoel Meranda <email suppressed>:
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>> A question I'm curious about...
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>> When a film projector is running, what is the percentage of time the
>> light is interrupted by the shutter? In other words, what percentage
>> of what we see is darkness?
>>
>> I realize that this question will have different answers for each
>> projector...
>>
>> I am mostly curious about 35mm projectors but any clue on any other
>> projector would be great. Even guesses would be fine if no one has
>> concrete answers.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> yoel
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