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Camera Equipped: 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 Rolleiflex, equipped with flash, is just about the ideal all-around picture taking device for journalistic purposes.
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Containing the New Optical Laws of the Camera Obscura or Daguerreotype, demonstrated that converging perpendiculars of the Camera image were indeed mathematically correct and concluded: "Art has always represented objects geometrically, or as they cannot be seen in the perpendicular and visually, or as they can be seen in the horizontal direction."3 But his findings were ignored. Indeed, amateurs were warned in manuals and instruction books never to tip the camera. Many hand cameras were even equipped with levels to assure the viewer that he was holding the Camera horizontally.
It helps to get the candid effect if you will tell everyone, repeating the words until you're tired of them, to pay no attention whatever to you and the Camera but to proceed as if you were not there at all.
For vivid pictures, you will, of course, need a Camera equipped with synchronized flash for evening and indoor affairs. |
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