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.
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amych - Oct 11, 2008 4:16:00 pm PDT #7819 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Sue - Oct 11, 2008 4:30:51 pm PDT #7820 of 25501
hip deep in pie
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.
Sue - Oct 11, 2008 4:36:27 pm PDT #7821 of 25501
hip deep in pie
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]
Ginger - Oct 11, 2008 5:17:37 pm PDT #7822 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
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.
tommyrot - Oct 11, 2008 5:25:50 pm PDT #7823 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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....
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2008 6:19:23 pm PDT #7824 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
Gris - Oct 11, 2008 7:04:26 pm PDT #7825 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Here you go ita: [link]
No need for X11 with that.
That said, if you have X11 it should be in your Utilities folder.
Connie Neil - Oct 11, 2008 7:13:56 pm PDT #7826 of 25501
brillig
I'm looking for a printer that may get use of a page a week if that. What would be a good one where we're not going to have to replace an ink cartridge after every tenth page?
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2008 7:16:16 pm PDT #7827 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
if you have X11 it should be in your Utilities folder.
It's there. But double-clicking on it does nothing I can see. And that version tells me I don't have X11 either.
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2008 7:49:10 pm PDT #7828 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, found my problem:
Oct 11 21:10:47 Cass crashdump[338]: X11 crashed
Oct 11 21:10:47 Cass crashdump[338]: crash report written to: /Users/ita/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/X11.crash.log
and X11.crash.log says:
Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11
Reason: image not found
Not that that tells me what to do next. I guess I gotta hunt down my install discs. AGAIN.