Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I recall seeing a harbinger of this in an old Pop Photography magazine from the early 1960s--it showed a reporter at some small western station doing a stand-up in front of a tripod-mounted Fairchild Cinephonic 8 (magnetic striped, single-system regular 8mm sound camera). The article went on to say that it allowed sound news footage to be shot by the reporter; the b/w film was developed as a negative (and electronically reversed to a positive for broadcast). Jim Shulman Wynnewood, PA Incidentally, my son-in-law, a news anchor for an ABC affiliate TV station in a major market was issued both a photo capable cell phone and a Kodak HD pocket sized video camera. He is to snap photos and videos of news worthy events whenever he comes across them. The pictures cannot be used on air (yet) because that would violate the news cameramen's union contract but they are prominently displayed on the station's web site. The station has fired most of its studio camera operators, camera positioning being done by computer controlled by the director. Larry Z _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information