Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/22

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Subject: [Leica] Putting cameramen out of work
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:39:10 -0400
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Meanwhile NYT writer Thomas Friedman lives in this Hot Flat and Crowded 
house:

http://wonkette.com/413811/this-is-literally-thomas-friedmans-house

-rei


On 08/22/2011 03:22 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
> According to TV News, cameramen and photographers are the lowest paid
> staffers on the roster of most local TV stations. My daughter and 
> son-in-law
> verify that this is the case on their own TV station in an affluent, near
> NYC, market. Most of the photographers and videographers receive so little
> salary that they qualify for food stamps. Here is a New York Times article
> that describes another way of putting even more of them out of work.
> Larry Z
>
> This month's collection of New York Times digital innovations
> begins with a contraption. Maybe there's a more technical term
> for the double-decker photographic device that NYT shooter Doug
> Mills deployed recently, but contraption feels right, too. Kerri
> McDonald, a writer for the Lens blog, explains the innovation in
> some depth in this post, but here's the boiled-down version:
> Doug was looking for a way to shoot still photos AND video.
> After finding a micro-ball head on a hot-shoe mount, he was able
> to bolt an SLR-like video camera atop a conventional digital
> still camera. When he used the device to cover the beginning of
> the Roger Clemens trial, he was able to let the video camera
> run, while firing the shutter of the still camera. In the
> process, he was able to satisfy the multiple needs of the
> printed newspaper as well as NYTimes.com. If you listen
> carefully to the video, which is at the bottom of Kerri's post,
> you can hear the shutter of the still camera.
>
>> Check out the post; the comments are worth reading as well: 
>> http://nyti.ms/pjG9XG<http://email.newyorktimes.com/19880bd52layfousbaf6rnfyaaaaaax5jntuanxyoqyyaaaaa>
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