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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
Filum????? What's that. Where does it go in a camera?
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It was some sort of primitive version of our CCD and CMOS systems.
Apparently the sensors 'wore out' or got 'used up' and a new lot had to be moved into place after every exposure. I vaguely recall they were on some sort of strip of fabric or plastic, probably the latter as all the sensor arrays had to be immersed in a series of liquids .. and all in the dark!
No wonder filum didn't survive, although it seems you didn't need a computer to look at the images, so it wasn't all bad.
