Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Claes wrote: >As a TV Photographer myself I have to object to some of the invectives! Nevertheless I tend to agree with the frightening conclusion that tomorrow=B4= s Video Photographers won=B4t have the same understandings for the Art of Photography as their older colleagues were taught in various photography- and film schools. > >When I started in the business we really didn=B4t have to worry at all about the colors. Mainly because we didn=B4t yet have color TV! At that time we sho= t the news on 16mm B&W negative film. > >When color television was introduced we used 16mm reversal film(Ektachrome), and suddenly correct exposure became really important. Exactly the point I was making. When you shoot film and have to be aware o= f the correct exposure you tend to pay more attention to all the detials of photography. >Well, you can imagine how lost those guys are when they one day find themselves out in the city wilderness with the heavy camera on their shoulder - and without headphones. Of course they love everything automatic that come with the new digital cameras!! Claes, since you have been there could you please explain to me why todays video shooters have to have the producer, or reporter tell them how to shoot? Is it because of this trend of using untrained people to opperate the cameras. My wife is a TV producer and I have been on several shoots with her and I have seen her have to spell out exactly how a shoot is going to go. Of course there are exceptions to this. One of the best TV/Motion picture photographers I know of works with her and she pretty much lets him have free reign to shoot as he sees fit, but then he is an exception and is VERY good at what he does. I think it is because he knows what a Leica is.= He has seen me shooting with mine and is envious! Harrison McClary http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto