elise_leveque

<p>Hi all,<br>

I was wondering when if I was going to get more responses only to find out the notifications went in the spam folder D:<br>

This is a lot more info than I thought I'd get, and thank you to you all. Let's take up a couple of points.<br>

@ Colin Carron "The plate sizes are all of the 4x5 format" Actually I did some research into this as I was going to take some pictures with my normal camera and I was wondering what format I should have used if I wanted to make them black & white and crop them to make it look like they were old. I found 4x5 somewhere on the net but wasn't 100% sure, so thanks for the confirmation (you didn't even know, did you!)</p>

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<p>In general British press cameras of the earlier part of the war were VN (VanNeck) and Goerz Press cameras. Speed Graphics only came along later. For actual war reporting the professional like Jarche used Leicas or Contaxes (ironic eh?).<br /></p>

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<p>Quite.</p>

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<p>Or you could be a British Army war photographer. During the war the army realised there was a huge domestic demand for photos of the fighting and of the British forces so in 1941 the British Army Film and Photographic Unit was set up. These guys were soldiers trained to take photos. They were originally given rather unwieldy cameras but fortunately a consignment of Zeiss-Ikon Super Ikontas was liberated and these became the standard issue for the Unit (ironic again, eh?)</p>

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<p>Quite (again)! And I didn't know about the unit, that sounds quite interesting.<br>

I now have to make up my mind about the three types of photographers but at least I know what my options are. I am considering either a photgrapher who became a war photographer or someone in the Army Photographic Unit. I wonder if for the latter they had women though, they were in separate services for other things such as the ATS, WREN or WAAF.<br>

Regarding Hebert: unbelievable that they censored it. Or well, due to the times, quite believable I should say.<br>

To the fedora fans: Yes I promise you I'll get something that works!<br>

Gerry Siegel about the spare film: nice touch, I didn't think about that!<br>

And thanks to everyone for the input, I now know what to do!</p>

<p>Sarah and Chris,</p>

<p>Thanks a lot. That gives me a good starting point. Now I need to find one of those, which I guess might be a bit of a task!</p>

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<p>I wasn't really sure where to post this, but I figured this would be the best section.<br>

I am going to a re-enactment event set in World War II and I was thinking of re-enacting the press at the time. I saw a couple do it some time back and I thought it was awesome. So did about 5 other photographers who just rushed to them as soon as they saw them, took a lot of pictures and asked them a lot of questions.<br>

They had an American camera however and I was wondering about finding an English one, since I'll be re-enacting the British press, that was used in the 1940s.<br>

Does anyone have any ideas?</p>

<p>Hi all,<br>

I am Elise, a freelance translator. I have been working with a friend on his website as he just started out as a Photographer and needed things translated from French to English. While doing all of that work he got me interested in photography too so I decided to follow his example and start learning about it!<br>

I might fire quite a few silly questions though, so be prepared!<br>

P.S.: This is just going to add to my shopping addiction...</p>