Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yeah, that contraption is for the digital edition of the newspaper. I don't think they plan to use it for TV at this point. On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>wrote: > According to TV News, cameramen and photographers are the lowest paid > staffers on the roster of most local TV stations. My daughter and > son-in-law > verify that this is the case on their own TV station in an affluent, near > NYC, market. Most of the photographers and videographers receive so little > salary that they qualify for food stamps. Here is a New York Times article > that describes another way of putting even more of them out of work. > Larry Z > > This month's collection of New York Times digital innovations > begins with a contraption. Maybe there's a more technical term > for the double-decker photographic device that NYT shooter Doug > Mills deployed recently, but contraption feels right, too. Kerri > McDonald, a writer for the Lens blog, explains the innovation in > some depth in this post, but here's the boiled-down version: > Doug was looking for a way to shoot still photos AND video. > After finding a micro-ball head on a hot-shoe mount, he was able > to bolt an SLR-like video camera atop a conventional digital > still camera. When he used the device to cover the beginning of > the Roger Clemens trial, he was able to let the video camera > run, while firing the shutter of the still camera. In the > process, he was able to satisfy the multiple needs of the > printed newspaper as well as NYTimes.com. If you listen > carefully to the video, which is at the bottom of Kerri's post, > you can hear the shutter of the still camera. > > >Check out the post; the comments are worth reading as well: > http://nyti.ms/pjG9XG < > http://email.newyorktimes.com/19880bd52layfousbaf6rnfyaaaaaax5jntuanxyoqyyaaaaa > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA