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...driver, stopping the truck close to the guardrail on the span about two thirds the distance to Yerba Buena Island. "We're three minutes late." In an auto on the ramp over their heads, a cameraman for the San Francisco Examiner (morning Hearst-paper) was checking his shutter adjustment, squinting at the cloud-scudded sky, gazing with concern at the second launch below the bridge. The man in the helmet stood on the running board, slipped out of his topcoat, stepped quickly over the guard rail, facing inward at the bridge. He glanced upward to the cameraman above...
...Times Wirephotos of deaths & disasters. So when Times Photographer George Strock showed up at the hospital week before last to snap pictures of Fitts as he was wheeled into the operating room, he noted with interest that none of the Examiners 16 photographers was on hand. Snick! went the shutter of Photographer Strock's camera and away he ran with a shot of the wounded District Attorney on a stretcher, a half-smoked cigaret in hand...
...bushes, snapped him twice with a telephoto lens, as he was putting and as he was marching down the fairway, niblick in hand. After taking the pictures, Photographer Wallace handed the film to his brother, popped a dummy magazine into his camera. Golfer Montague, who had heard the shutter click, ran over to Photographer Wallace, took the camera away, removed the dummy magazine, destroyed...
...researcher, for an automatic device to prevent unskilled photographers from under-or over-exposing their plates.* A photoelectric cell attached to the camera measures the quantity of illumination available, adjusts a screen of varying transparency so that the proper amount of light is admitted to the lens when the shutter is operated. Cornered by newshawks in Princeton, Dr. Einstein was embarrassed, reticent. Snapped Dr. Bucky in Manhattan: ''A man must have some private corner in his life. You will excuse me, please...
...amateur snapshotters are Fairchild cameras. An inexpensive model costs more than $1,000, and the most popular number sells for about $4,000. This model has one lens, is operated automatically by electricity. After the camera is set for the amount of overlap desired on successive pictures, the shutter clicks at regular intervals in the plane's flight. Coincidentally with each click a little subsidiary camera records on the negative the time, temperature, altitude, bubble level reading and identification number. Then a vacuum, holding the film firmly flat during exposure, is released, and the roll is wound...