[Leica] Cameras and TV

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Gary, yes, absolutely. Also never apply for any dangerous jobs where you 
accompany the hero but don't get to say much, and never
ever express any disbelief when someone tells you that there is something 
evil in the house. 

-----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
Gary Pinkerton
Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:10
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: RE: [Leica] Cameras and TV

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