What is the Focal Prism?
Written By Victor Modlinski
After working for so many years in the photo and video
industry, I had accumulated a large amount of images and
footage that I wished to publish online. I owned
another website I launched in 1997, called The Outernet
Web at
www.outernetweb.com. It was an arts and
entertainment website with my original content and
content from other providers.
The Outernet Web
name and purpose became obsolete in my mind, and I
needed something with a new name that would feature only
my work. The Outernet Web site still exists today but
all of the page links forward you to the new website.
The new website would become the photo and video
showcase I have been looking for all long. It would need
to have an appropriate name to reflect the nature of the
site, while continuing to host the vintage
content that made the old site so popular.
During
this naming quest, I spent many hours and days trying to
come up with a new, catchy web domain name. It had to be
short and easy to remember, unlike the old site.
So I turned to my knowledge of cameras and their
internal components in order to come up with the new
name. Below is an illustration of a typical SLR (Single
Lens Reflex) Camera showing the various internal parts
and how they work together in order to record images to
film or a digital sensor used in today's modern cameras.
I ended up using the parts known as the image plane,
focal plane shutter and the pentaprism to come up with
the name.
The focal
plane shutter is the device that lifts the mirror when
the photo is taken and is recorded onto the media
sitting in the path of the image plane.
The pentaprism
is the glass prism used to flip the image coming in
through the lense to provide a rightside up view in the
viewfinder for the photographer.
Using a
combination of these, I came up with the name Focal
Prism and a new website was born at
www.focalprism.com.
I hope that you enjoy what I have created, because there
is so much more to come!
Let me know what you
think at
vmodlinski@focalprism.com.
Thank you!
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