Re: Dupes from colour negatives

[ted grant <75501.3002@CompuServe.COM>]

Harrison McClary wrote:

<<<In my former life I shot for the now defunct United Press International, and
the newspaper I worked for prior to that was one of the first with the Leafax
neg transmitter.>>>>>>>

Harrison,

mighty small world, this one of photographers!  I was the first photographer in
Ottawa to be taken to New York for interview to be the senior photographer for
UPI when they signed a contract with the Ottawa Citizen.  I didn't take the job,
it meant less money and more work. The work I didn't mind, however the money? :)

There are few names you may know , Bob Carroll, Andy Clark, Gary Bartlett?

UPI in Canada became United Press Canada for some time and then evolved into
Reuters. And the leafax I'm well aware of as I worked with some UPI shooters
when they used them.

<<By the way the Associated Press doesn't even use film any more theyuse a
digital camera back mounted on a Nikon N90 back with a PICMA card to store the
images.  I have seen those guys litterally transmitt from their seats>>>>>>

Sorry I had forgotten about that for my post, as a photorapher friend on the
Vancouver Sun worked closely with AP on these new fangled digital cameras. That
paper is now all digital and do their transmissions from their "Digi-vans" back
to the paper from wherever they are! :)

And where does that take the Leica shooters? Well we're still here and even if I
had to go digital (not likely ever) I'd still have a Leica M camera right handy
just in case the electronic whiz bang image makers crashed. :)

ted   (Leica forever! :) )