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Monday, 3 August 2009

One camera, 50 years, 10,000 pictures

Yeah, we know it’s an ad, but it’s a lovely bit of film making: a stop motion clip celebrates 50 years of Olympus’ PEN camera, shooting over 60,000 pictures and claiming no post production.

3 Comments

  1. Tony Richardson
    Posted Monday, 3 August 2009 at 12:03 pm | Permalink

    What a beautiful commercial! The perfect combination of relevant technique and relevant idea.

  2. Stilgherrian
    Posted Monday, 3 August 2009 at 1:45 pm | Permalink

    It is indeed a beautiful video. It’s a shame so much of it appears to be a complete rip-off of Stop motion with wolf and pig by a Japanese chap going by the handle dokugyunyu. Without even an acknowledgement.

  3. Nerida Haycock
    Posted Monday, 3 August 2009 at 5:25 pm | Permalink

    True dat, Stilgherrian. Olympus supposedly address this in the comments for this video on YouTube, stating:

    “Some of the comments we have read here suggest that we should mention the creator of “A wolf loves pork”, Mr Taijin Takeuchi.
    While we were looking for a way to realise a story describing “a journey through time” based on printed images, we were inspired by Mr Takeuchi’s brilliant work. For this reason we intentionally quoted his work in our little movie while showing full respect to his original idea. We didnt mention his name because we did not want to do so without his prior agreement.
    However after considering some of the comments posted here we have decided to add credits to him and his work, which we obviously absolutely love.”

    However, I’m yet to see any evidence of credit, either in the video or on the Olympus PEN site. Bad Olympus. And what kind of BS is that, not crediting someone because they didn’t have their permission? Like they didn’t have his permission to STEAL HIS IDEA IN THE FIRST PLACE.

    BAH