[Leica] Re; Barcelona in color - not!

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

We were, but the still pictures coming over the wire were b&w, because the
fax was BW only.  It came over a machine printed line by line, and took
about ten minutes to transmit an 8x10 image onto a tissue-like paper.

 Separations, being three bW prints would have taken an immense amount of
work to make a color image for us, since they were designed for the press
process.  We just didn't have the staff or the equipment to recombine them.


When we used a wirephoto, we just tacked it to a board and shot it with a TV
camera live.

In the first TV newsroom I worked in, I was the only news photographer.
That was WAFB in Baton Rouge, the State Capitol!



On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Jim Shulman <jshulman at 
judgecrater.com>wrote:

> You mean you weren't broadcasting in compatible color?
>
> Jim
>
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> Sonny Carter
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> In the Vietnam/Civil Rights  era the AP and UPI picture Fax machines only
> transmitted  black and white.
>
> To get color, a separation had to be shot, transmitted, and hopefully the
> boys in the print room would get it right.
>
> Of course those were useless to us in TV newsrooms.
>
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> Sonny
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Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA