elekm
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To add to this a bit, one of my friends at work was telling me this story:
He was just out of the Army and was working at a small newspaper up in Connecticut. The reporters sometimes took their own photos, if a staff photographer wasn't available. So the editor goes to the photo department and comes back with a Rolleiflex and hands it to Jim, who had never used a TLR.
He shows Jim how to advance the film, focus and take a photo. Jim goes out, does his interview and then proceeds to shoot a bunch of photos of his subject. He gets back to the office, hand over the camera. They open the back and -- no film. He took a bunch of blanks. I don't think he even knew how to load the film and obviously never looked at the frame counter.
Jim had to call back the person he interviewed and tell them some made-up story about why he needed to come back and reshoot all of the photos.
He was just out of the Army and was working at a small newspaper up in Connecticut. The reporters sometimes took their own photos, if a staff photographer wasn't available. So the editor goes to the photo department and comes back with a Rolleiflex and hands it to Jim, who had never used a TLR.
He shows Jim how to advance the film, focus and take a photo. Jim goes out, does his interview and then proceeds to shoot a bunch of photos of his subject. He gets back to the office, hand over the camera. They open the back and -- no film. He took a bunch of blanks. I don't think he even knew how to load the film and obviously never looked at the frame counter.
Jim had to call back the person he interviewed and tell them some made-up story about why he needed to come back and reshoot all of the photos.