Nevermind, she pressed more buttons and the sound came back.

Just in time for Supernatural!

(also finally remembered that the other box is my modem)

Maybe re-install IE?

Yeah, or maybe I'll just suck it up and try to remember not to close windows that still think they are loading -- I think that's when it happens.

any camera historians on the list? We are doing a play set in 1962. There is a press conference. The Sound Designer has camera sounds going off. But they are of the shutter/motor sound to take the picture and auto advance the film. It looks to me that the auto advance came around 1972. So I'm guessing the sounds would be more flash bulb pop/sizzle than shutter/advance. Anyone know for certain?

No idea on dates, but a strong sensory memory that the rhythm of shutter, then hand-crank to advance with the thumb-lever-thingie was a very distinctive sound.

It looks like Nikon introduced the motor drive to their cameras in 1978. [link]

The Nikon F 35mm SLR film camera was introduced in 1959 and it was quickly popularized by photojournalists as a “news” camera. The chrome body and a viewing prism that allowed the photographer to see exactly what the lens was seeing, regardless of which lens was in use, with a single-stroke film advance, made it easier to use than a rangefinder camera for many while photograph rapidly-moving subjects or changing scenes. Nikon followed with the Nikon F Photomic in 1962, basically a Nikon F except with an interchangeable prism “finder” that included a built-in light meter. The Photomic T version of it came along in 1965 and the TN model in 1967.

The Nikon F Photomic TN (all black, with no brand icons) was developed for NASA in 1968 for use on America’s space shuttle, and the first major advance on the F model came with the release of the Nikon F2 in 1971. Consumer (or “pro-sumer”) models first came out in 1977 with the Nikon FM, and the Nikon FE in 1978 and the EM in 1979. A high-speed motor driven version of the F2/T was released in 1978 in advance of the Moscow Olympics (the “boycotted” Olympics) with a top speed of 10 frames per second and a maximum shutter speed of 1/1000th second.

The Olympus introduced the PEN EM in 1965 with the first automatic advance, but it was only in the market for a year before production ceased. [link]

I'm pretty sure most 1962 photographers would have electronic flashes, not flash bulbs. IIRC, it was into the '80s before many non-sports photographers had autodrives. The sound of a press conference in the '70s was a lot of cameras going shutter click, wind, shutter click, wind.

The sound of a press conference in the '70s was a lot of cameras going shutter click, wind, shutter click, wind.

So really, all you need in the play is a character named "Camera" who says, "Shutter click, wind, shutter click, wind."

It's possible that, had I been sober, I might not have posted this....

I'm looking for graphics apps for the Mac that aren't Photoshop. It seems there's a Gimp, but I can't see how to make it work. I downloaded from Sourceforge, but it tells me I need X11. I have X11--I've used it to play FreeCiv. And of course now when I try to run FreeCiv nothing happens, so I suspect I'm memfaulting on something obvious.

Help?

Here you go ita: [link]

No need for X11 with that.

That said, if you have X11 it should be in your Utilities folder.