8/17/2023 0 Comments Log flume ride physics![]() “Twenty years ago we were essentially inventing everything: scavenging parts at radio shack, soldering things together, but now it has become a little more commoditized,” Shearer says. Where things tend to differ is the proprietary software that companies use to get the images from the cameras to the computers down below. Get the Picture Corp Debbie Egan-Chin/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images Astroland will close its doors at the end of the season to make way for a redevelopment of Coney Island but the 80-year-old Cyclone is promised to be part of the new boardwalk. Right: Miss Cyclone Angie Pontani (left) and Astro Girl Jen Gapay have a front row seat on the Cyclone roller coaster, as they take the first plunge on opening day at Astroland amusement park. Bettman/Getty Images CBS via Getty Images Present Day Right: Models from the CBS gameshow, ‘The Big Payoff,’ Connie Mavis and Pat Conway ride The Parachute Jump, originally built for the 1939 World’s Fair, at Steeplechase Park. A companion clutched the camera while he clicked the shutter. Left: The roller coaster is a rough ride, but do they love it! This unposed photo was taken by the intrepid photographer from a front seat, as the car made a stomach-dropping descent. Printing the images still took about 3 minutes, but it was the birth of the ride photography business as we know it today. “If we were going to survive in this business we had to become a pretty integrated shop,” he says. He developed proprietary software with his business partner Bob Hench to get the images from the camera to transfer instantaneously to a computer in the photobooth outside of the ride. Right: Friends riding a roller coaster Chris Ware/Getty Images Bill Varie/Getty ImagesĮventually his company installed continuous lighting on the rides with cameras and switched to video technology, which allowed them to pull frames featuring all of the individual riders. Left: Two women enjoy a roller coaster ride at the funfair. “At that time there weren’t any strobes out there that could keep up,” he says. Initially he could only operate the cameras in broad daylight. Lighting was another early issue for Sinkosky. Joe Dennehy/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Kennedy, ride the Wildcat roller coaster at Riverside Amusement Park in Agawam, Mass., on July 6, 1979. “ told me ‘if I could afford to have this on every ride-I would,” he says. Sinkosky says speaking with both parks helped him understand the risks involved and the potential for profit. He recalled having helpful conversations with people in the ride photography departments at both parks before launching his company in 1987. According to Sinkosky, who started his business Get the Picture Corp around this time, parks like Disney and Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH were some of the first places to offer the service. In the late ’80s amusement parks began installing ride cams on their most popular roller coasters. Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images Alan Band/Keystone/Getty Images The Introduction of Instant Gratification ![]() Right: 1981: The rollercoaster ride ‘The Loch Ness Monster’ at Busch Gardens Centre, Williamsburg, Virginia, boasts speeds of 70mph. ![]() Original Publication: Picture Post – 409 -October Month Of Fairs – pub. Left: Two young women enjoying themselves on a rollercoaster at Southend Fair, England. Both were early attractions in seaside resorts like Coney Island and Asbury Park. Photography has existed almost as long as roller coasters. Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images Thrill Ride Photography in the 19th and 20th Century Essentially you want to find a place on that ride where you are going to get a real good reaction.” Loop the Loop at Coney Island Amusement Park, 1910 in New York City. “There are so many points on a roller coaster where you are going to get absolutely tremendous facial expressions or negative G-forces where people’s hair is up in the air. “We’ve come up with a highly technical term that we call the OSP, which stands for the ‘Oh Shit Point,’” says Tony Sinkosky, CEO and President of Get the Picture Corp, a ride photography business based in Pennsylvania. The last crucial piece of the thrill ride experience is a stop at the photobooth to laugh at whatever ridiculous face you might have been making during the most thrilling part of the ride. The way your heart races before you hit that first drop and the laughter and/or terror screams as endorphins pulse through your body as you whip around the track for approximately a minute is either euphoric or horrifying depending on who you ask. There are few things quite exhilarating as the thrill of a very good roller coaster. Hy Peskin/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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