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Originally Posted by Bob Kontak
Glen:
Bob: |
That one has the fancy rapid wind knob. Mine was the simple knob but it had a very rudimentary light meter built in that ate batteries like mad, so I never had batteries that worked.
Eventually I got the rapid wind knob.
My very first photo in the local newspaper was of our football team in a night time playoff game. The editor said he wanted to see facial expressions of the quarterback. My boss at the time set me up with his 500ELM (motor drive version of the Hassleblad) and a 70 mm film back, and the 500 MM lens all on a pistol grip. That rig felt like it weighed about 100 pounds by halftime. Fortunately I was young and tough. I shot Tri-X (ASA 400) the highest speed film that was worth using, and push processed it to 1600 with Rodenal developer and a crazy rigged up cine film processor. I got a picture of the quarterback with a great grimace as he hurled the ball to a receiver that scored a touchdown. I had to print it that night, and transmit the image with our UPI equipment to the newspaper in Birmingham using an acoustic coupler on the phone. That photo was run by most of the Alabama newspapers the next day.