[Leica] Cameras and TV

[gpinkcp at msn.com (Gary Pinkerton)]

I know that if I lived in an area, near a hospital where so many odd 
illnesses were constantly showing up - I'd be moving to other some other 
state pronto.



>From: "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>
>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
>Subject: RE: [Leica] Cameras and TV
>Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 07:20:04 +1000
>
>DaveR, that's an entertaining analysis ;-) I don't know that particular 
>show, but let me tell you that if you have a medico in your
>household you often get an equivalent analysis on scenes involving 
>emergency rooms  or intensive care scenarios etc. Our list
>medicos might chime in here.
>
>Cheers
>Hoppy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
>[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>David Rodgers
>Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2007 02:42
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: [Leica] Cameras and TV
>
>Anyone happen to watch "House" on Fox last night. The patient was a 
>photographer.
>
>For those not familiar with "House" it's a drama. In each episode a patient 
>with a complex -- and often terminal -- medical
>condition is admitted. It's up to Dr. House and his team to diagnose and 
>save the patient.
>
>While I'm sure the medical story line is always factual and 
>realistic......the photography sidebar in this episode was a bit of a
>reach. Early in the episode the patient began photographing the doctors.
>(Who on their death bed wouldn't keep clicking away??? My dying words will 
>no doubt be, "where's my Leica?")
>
>Not surprisingly, prints appeared almost immediately. It's a one hour show 
>and with commercials and a medical story line they
>couldn't get into the technical photography stuff. They probably didn't 
>care that I'd be interested to know they had an Epson 3800
>handy in Medical Records department.
>
>The first doctor discovered his portrait when it was hanging from a string 
>next to the patient. It was almost as though the patient
>had just pulled it from a tray of fixer. (Again, who wouldn't want to 
>develop prints from a hospital bed??? My next to last dying
>words will no doubt be, "I'm going back to Selectol".)
>
>I assume the prints where chemical. After all, it's not necessary to hang 
>digital prints. But therein was my greatest dilemma. I
>couldn't make a clear digital or film connection.
>
>The prints were BW. Perhaps they were printed on Crane Museo. I can't be 
>sure. The producers couldn't get Crane to pay for a plug.
>Why are "artistic" prints never in color?
>
>The prints were very nice. Image area was 5x7 printed on 8x10 paper (or 
>maybe 8 1/2 by 11) The images had a very film-like border.
>It almost looked like film printed through a filed out neg carrier. Or a 
>contact print from PN55.
>
>The photos looked like studio portraits. I hope my next hospital room is 
>equipped with a canvas backdrop.
>
>The camera used in bed was either a digital body....or a film body. I'm not 
>  familiar with Canon bodies, unfortunately. I did see
>the photographer chimping, so maybe it was film. If so they must have had a 
>Jobo in the pharmacy and a Nikon 5000 in the OR. More
>likely, it was a digital camera and someone had CS2 loaded on a their 
>hospital PC.
>
>The brand of camera used was clearly Canon! They didn't black out the 
>letters on the camera like they used to do. Money must have
>changed hands somewhere. I've noticed that on law enforcement dramas you'll 
>normally see Nikons.
>
>I've observed that if a TV program depicts a serious photographer they'll 
>show a Leica, or more often a Hasselblad. In the intro to
>"House" the photographer used a Hasselblad during a studio shoot. That 
>established "professionalism". Obviously a Canon wasn't
>enough to do the trick.
>
>During the studio shoot the Hasselblad was activating strobes. Yet there 
>wasn't a synch cord or remote attached to a PC socket. They
>must think we're idiots not to notice such things! It looked like a 500 or 
>501 but I could have been mistaken.
>
>All in all this unrealistic treatment of photography made me lose interest 
>in the show. The real conflict in the drama for me was
>whether or not all the photography was digital or film. The pictures looked 
>filmy, but the turn around was immediate. I knew I'd
>never have a definitive answer so I fell asleep half way through the show. 
>The patient lived, I assume.
>
>DaveR
>
>
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