Many years ago I was introduced to the potential for strip cameras to produce startling interpretations of ordinary subjects. This was mostly as a result of George Silk's work. He was a prominent Life photographer who used one of these cameras to photograph the 1960 Tokyo Olympics. After seeing his photographs, I became intrigued with the process and have built and experimented with these cameras ever since. There is an intriguing aspect to this type of photography.
Strip cameras come in all kinds of designs and are used for a variety of applications.
Since all of these are considered special and sophisticated cameras, their price tag is usually quite high. I have been using them for personal research and teaching purposes in classes at the Rochester Institute of Technology for the general topic of photoinstrumentation. For one, I have become quite intimately acquainted with the general operating principle of the various systems. Among the items was a tapered teapot. Making a 360 degree reproduction of this item would have introduced distortion into the reproduction because a normal peripheral camera could only reproduce the top and bottom as equal lengths of film while the teapot itself had a smaller circumference at the top than at the bottom.