See, this is the stuff I was talking about. Nobody ever tells you
about using a B&H for self-defense in film school. The worst we hear
is, "Oh, I can remember shoots where the catering was terrible." ;-)
FWIW, the Bolex is much-revered around campus. I remember in one of
my early intro classes a few years back the guest lecturer told us,
"You buy a camera from the Germans or the Swiss. Not the Japanese.
Not the French. Not the Russians. A Bolex will last 30 or 40 years.
You'll be putting the leftover pieces of your Japanese camera in a
cardboard box before you've owned it a year." Eh, you take the good
with the bad. Some of the people who lectured weren't idiots. ;-)
On Jul 15, 2005, at 9:43 AM, <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx> <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Walt,
>
> Well, no one was shooting at me, but I did shoot a 70 something, DR
> I think,
> in the very early seventies. I shot newsfilm, mostly silent. We
> were all
> issued the camera and three lenses, a Frezzi light, and a Spectra
> meter.
> When we needed sound, we checked out the one sound-on camera, some
> kind of
> optical sound camera that had been converted to mag stripe. I think
> someone
> once used the B&H for self-defense. Fortunately, the Huston-
> Fearless was run
> by a separate department.
>
> As I look back on what we did, and what we see now, I'm depressed.
> Seems
> that, at least locally, sound is mostly used for needless reporter
> stand-ups. Oh, and the total lack of establishing shots is appalling.
>
> And, Ron, we shot ektachrome. And yes, I was caught by the no-
> latitiude
> monster a few times!
>
> After I left the TV news business, I went to Public TV, where we had a
> Bolex. I never really liked it as well!
>
> Bill Pearce
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