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Automatic Camera: First, what about a camera? Any Camera which will produce negatives which can be enlarged to a decent 8 x 10 print will do the job, but there are plenty of good reasons why the favorite tool of an overwhelming majority of magazine photographers is a twin-lens reflex such as the automatic Camera Rollei-flex. In addition to a Rolleiflex, or perhaps two or three of them, it is common for the magazine photographer to have also a view Camera and a 35mm. Even the Rolleiflex will not do all the things as well as some of the other cameras.The use of the press Camera with cut film is important in news coverage because you often send in negatives, sometimes undeveloped, for fast processing in the newspaper's own darkroom. Most such darkrooms are equipped to handle only cut film with any efficiency. In the case of features, you can count on making your own prints in your own darkroom, and you can produce them in any way you see fit with the Camera you like best. This might influence you to use a twin-lens reflex camera, the favorite tool of the magazine photographers, rather than a press camera. An automatic Camera Rolleiflex, equipped with flash, is just about the ideal all-around picture taking device for journalistic purposes. i
The immediate drama of accidents, the exaggerated emotions brought out on faces in the presence of disaster or crime, the violent split-second action of sports can be imparted vividly by the camera. The photographer needs not so much artifice, subtlety of light and shade, and sense of composition as boldness, strong nerves, and a mastery of his Camera so complete that handling it is an automatic Camera reflex. |
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