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Press Camera Equipped: The use of the press Camera equipped Camera with cut film is important in news coverage because you often send in negatives, sometimes undeveloped, for fast processing in the newspaper's own darkroom. Most such darkrooms are equipped to handle only cut film with any efficiency. In the case of features, you can count on making your own prints in your own darkroom, and you can produce them in any way you see fit with the Camera you like best. This might influence you to use a twin-lens reflex camera, the favorite tool of the magazine photographers, rather than a press Camera equipped camera. An Automatic Rolleiflex, equipped with flash, is just about the ideal all-around picture taking device for journalistic purposes.
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For the most adequate wedding coverage, it is almost a necessity to have your Camera equipped for synchronized flash and a portable speedlight is a wonderful aid. If you are to specialize in wedding pictures, you can make good use of two cameras, one a 4 x 5 press Camera equipped type for the posed pictures and some of the impromptu shots, and the other either a 35mm or twin-lens reflex, also equipped with flash, for the candid shots. You can get along nicely, however, with either a press Camera equipped type Camera or twin-lens reflex alone.
Never boast about your photo equipment in interviews with prospects. It will be taken for granted that you have a 4x5 press Camera equipped Camera and a means of making enlargements. One of the advantages of this field is that this is about all the equipment you need. Of course, your Camera must be equipped for synchronized flash, for you will employ flash consistently indoors and out, to insure the crisp pictures which are preferred for newspaper reproduction. You can make good use of a twin-lens reflex, instead of a press Camera equipped camera, especially if your publicity work carries you into the magazine fields. |
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