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[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Mark Rabiner OFFERED:

>>>On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
>>>wrote:

> I'm I'm looking it up and reading this crazy thing about Rueters giving
> their photographers Canon cameras but the stringers use their own which
> could be other brands. Really I had no deal you worked for a place and they
> gave you cameras. Except special remote controll setups for the 
> Olympics.<<<<<<

Hi Mark,
When I acquired my first newspaper photog job I had only seen Speedgraphic 
cameras in the movies or during the odd previous gathering of some news kind 
of event and these cameras were.... "The Newsphotographers camera!" Like it 
or leave it.

So when I started someone handed me a new Speed Graphic, some graphmatics 
for the film and all the instructions were?  "Hey Ted, here's your camera, 
look after it as it's the only one you are going to get!"  Then I went in a 
back room and learned how it worked. :-) Oh and all the techie crap of 
today?????? In those days it was our KISS SIMPLE! :-) "Cock shutter, focus 
lens, click! THAT WAS IT!" :-)

And dang it worked very well! Of course it was the bag of flash bulbs you 
had to carry around was a bit of a bind! :-) But you got over it as it was 
the greatest job in the world being a... "NEWSPAPER NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER ON 
STAFF AND YOU GOT INTO ALL THE NEAT AND COOL THINGS ABOUT THE CITY!" :-)

Aw it was all so simple a life!  Loved it! :-) 

cheers,
ted