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Mamiya 645 1000s Shutter: At first the "open flash" method was used: with the Camera on a tripod, the mamiya 645 1000s shutter was opened, the flash bulb set off, and the mamiya 645 1000s shutter was closed. Later the release of the mamiya 645 1000s shutter was mechanically synchronized with the discharge of electric current and the Camera could be held in hand. For convenience the flash gun (battery case, flash bulb, and reflector) was fastened to the side of the camera.
In the beginning, you can't expect to crash into the coverage of spectacular attractions like major league baseball and the intersectional football classics, and the buyers of your pictures will not be newspapers or magazines. However, you should try to equip yourself to shoot pictures just as good as those in the magazine coverage of major sports events, because such pictures are what your own clients would really like to buy if they could get them.
Physical equipment for good sports pictures these days means electronic flash for indoor work and a focal plane mamiya 645 1000s shutter for outdoors. You can get by nicely with ordinary flash indoors and with an efficient between-the-lens mamiya 645 1000s shutter outdoors, of course, but there is a definite advantage in being able to shoot at the fastest possible mamiya 645 1000s shutter speeds.
However, although a long focal length lens is mandatory, it need not be expensive. The utmost of critical sharpness in a portrait lens is not necessary, or even desired, since considerable diffusion can be tolerated in portrait negatives. Your lens needn't be in a mamiya 645 1000s shutter for strictly studio portraits, either. A lens in barrel is perfectly satisfactory, since you can provide yourself with a simple Packard mamiya 645 1000s shutter to use behind the lens. Many portrait men actually prefer the Packard to the more costly between-the-lens mamiya 645 1000s shutters. |
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