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It looks like Nikon introduced the motor drive to their cameras in 1978.
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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.
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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.
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?
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.
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.
Really? Gimp.app doesn't open X11 in a window and doesn't pull up an X11 toolbar. It looks just like a normal Mac app. Maybe it uses X and is magically invisible... cool!
