Pro Walkman (was Re: [Nature Recordists] Re: Lyrebird)

["jtudor2005" jtudor2005]

--- In  Paul Jacobson <> wrote:
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> On 21/12/2010, at 1:25 PM, Avocet wrote:
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> > I've got a CD of Dame Nelly Melba of sauce fame recorded acoustically.
> 
> Funnily enough Nellie Melba's "cottage" at Coldstream  is only about 15 
> minutes drive from  Healesville Sanctuary where the Attenborough  "motor 
> drive camera" Lyrebird was filmed.   A small world n'est-ce pas?
>
Paul

Talking Heads that is repeating on ABC2 at 5:30am Thursday (SA Time) is Jim 
Frazier. If I remember this story from previously, Jim invented a lens system 
that allows for small objects in the foreground to be in focus AND the distant 
background remains in focus too. And if I remember, apparently stolen by 
Panavision later. Jim did a lot of work on Attenborough's documentaries.

It's well worth watching (or at least recording i you don't want to get up in 
the wee hours....)

John