Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 4/4/07, s.dimitrov@charter.net <s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote: > > One of my hobbies is collecting news photos from old defunct wire > services. > I collect them to remind myself that there never was a golden age. > Technical mediocrity was normative. > Poor quality was the standard. > Content, more often than not, was poorly arranged and expressed. > Otherwise, people with cameras, were just making a living. > I was a news cameraman for WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge, and carried a IIIf to snap a shot if I could, after I got the stuff for the TV station. The UPI guy was in New Orleans, at WWL, a competing TV station to our affilliate in New Orleans.. I would drop my film into their film bag as we shipped our newsfilm at the Trailways bus station, and Bernie the UPI guy would get it down there. He would develop and transmit my shot. I got $7 each shot they played, and replace my film. Big Money in those days. -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana USA