Orthographic Camera Can Produce: The techniques of peripheral photography permit the circumference of a cylindrical subject to be rendered as though spread out; and the nonperspective orthographic Camera can produce images with no vanishing point, in which uniformly sized subjects at different distances all appear as one size. The use of fiber-optic scanners permits the recording of images traveling from remote or inaccessible sites, even through a complex path.
First, what about a camera? Any Camera which will produce negatives which can be enlarged to a decent 8 x 10 print will do the job, but there are plenty of good reasons why the favorite tool of an overwhelming majority of magazine photographers is a twin-lens reflex such as the Automatic Rollei-flex. In addition to a Rolleiflex, or perhaps two or three of them, it is common for the magazine photographer to have also a view Camera and a 35mm. Even the Rolleiflex will not do all the things as well as some of the other cameras.
The use of the press Camera with cut film is important in news coverage because you often send in negatives, sometimes undeveloped, for fast processing in the newspaper's own darkroom. Most such darkrooms are equipped to handle only cut film with any efficiency. In the case of features, you can count on making your own prints in your own darkroom, and you can produce them in any way you see fit with the Camera you like best. This might influence you to use a twin-lens reflex camera, the favorite tool of the magazine photographers, rather than a press camera. An Automatic Rolleiflex, equipped with flash, is just about the ideal all-around picture taking device for journalistic purposes.
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