1964 Preview of Photo Products

This is from the July 1963 issue of Modern Photography magazine.

 

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Keppler looks at Ektachrome-X film.

 

 

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Here is this month's Behind the Scenes column.

 

 

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Bennett Sherman looks at the Canon auto focus camera and the Artronic shutter system.

 

 

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Keppler writes that automatics need help in thimking. His word, not mine.

 

 

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Here is Keppler on the SLR.

 

 

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Here is this month's 35mm column.

 

 

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Here is this month's Too Hot to Handle.

 

 

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Here is a 1963 Meter Directory.

 

 

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Here is an interesting article on meter photocells.

 

 

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What is XR film?

 

 

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Here are this month's camera equipment ads.

 

 

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Here are this month's Modern Tests.

 

 

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Here are this month's dealer ads.

 

 

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Great series of articles, Marc. Ironically, my first roll of Ektachrome was outdated Ektachrome-X that I shot in my Sears 127 camera and had processed by Hawkeye Photo. These were interesting times. Thanks for posting.

Good stuff. Thanks, Marc.

When I was in college I worked with a documentary film crew that shot with an Eclair NPR mentioned in the 1964 preview. It was still considered a premium camera in the mid 1970's, and it was quiet enough to film dialogue at fairly close distances, especially if you weren't filming in a "live" room with lots of hard sound reflective materials. The camera we worked with had a motor that was "crystal controlled" and could work either with a cord between the camera and 1/4" Nagra tape recorder or with a slate you could shoot sync sound footage without a cord. My glamorous job one summer was sitting in the back seat of a car on location and keeping the camera continuously loaded via the interchangeable film magazines--we had two of them, and that meant that I had approximately 11 minutes unload the previous 400' load (loosely taken up on a core which could not be allowed to drop out of the film, lest the lab disown us forever...) and load the new 400' load. Even parked in the shade a changing bag got pretty hot.

Thanks again for sharing this.

Mark, again thanks. These posts bring so many memories.

 

Electric eyes and autoexposure were the hot topics. There is even a description of autofocus (in a Canon movie camera, I believe). Kodapak and Instamatics were on the launch pad.

Great!