Talk:Tele-snaps

Merger proposal

Merge - duplicated information; John Cura is exclusively known for tele-snaps. Rapido (talk) 14:27, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Merge but under the title of John Cura with a section devoted to Tele-snaps within it, and redirects from both Tele-snaps & Telesnaps - it should be remembered that he was also an inventor (perfecting his camera) and author too...Zir (talk) 11:26, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Would support the merge proposal overall but oppose strongly proposition, by User:Zir above, that Tele-snaps should be absorbed in John Cura. Cura isn't really notable for anything other than Tele-snaps, at least these days (40-odd years ago I suppose he would have been better known for his books on tuning televisions but that is not the case today). A quick check shows that 23 articles link to Tele-snaps and only 10 to John Cura, a 2-1 majority. It makes more sense to me that people writing articles would want to directly wiki-link to Tele-snaps than Cura since the meaning of the term is obscure to most people bar those with a particular interest in nineteen-fifties and sixties British television. - Joe King (talk) 18:36, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

 Done per request at WP:RM, as all comments support the merge and no new comments have been added for a long time. It is more of a redirect than a merge as all the relevant material was already in this article. Euryalus (talk) 02:10, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Appeals to incredulity

The page previously stated:

"[Cura] eventually came up with a mechanism that took tiny (24 X 18 mm), but very detailed, images at a speed of 1/25th of a second."

In fact, the 18×24 mm half-frame image on 35 mm film is exactly the same format and surface area as used in a 35 mm motion picture camera, which is clearly detailed enough to be projected onto a large screen. Cura's Telesnaps were actually comparable to 35 mm telerecordings, so suggesting they were "tiny" and yet somehow surprisingly "very detailed" is misleading. Nick Cooper (talk) 14:32, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I can make an edit to the page if you left me know what to remove and what to put there. Vincinel (talk) 03:11, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

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1/25 second shutter speed

There are a number of references to Cura taking at a shutter speed 1/25 second. This seems to be an assumption based on the fact that that is the frame-rate of a full UK frame (i.e. 2 x 50 fields per second). However, in my own experience of photographing TV screens back in the 1980s, it was necessary to use a slower speed, usually 1/15 second. Nick Cooper (talk) 18:19, 19 April 2019 (UTC)