Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/17

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] Re; Barcelona in color - not!
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:42:34 -0500
References: <BANLkTimNPRNhwkQDhr+soQbzChCTo-ptgw@mail.gmail.com> <82D9197B6C564A949183B824FEB96FB7@syneticfeba505> <BANLkTim2=7Nd9XpYCU1XYPEJ6QL_WkQRdQ@mail.gmail.com> <865a8dfbfd1f13968343a76263ac1f4f@mail.gmail.com>

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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf 
> Of
> Sonny Carter
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 8:53 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re; Barcelona in color - not!
>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>
> USA
>
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>



-- 
Regards,

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

USA


In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re; Barcelona in color - not!)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca) ([Leica] Re; Barcelona in color - not!)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] Re; Barcelona in color - not!)
Message from jshulman at judgecrater.com (Jim Shulman) ([Leica] Re; Barcelona in color - not!)