Word: telephotoed
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...sooner had the meeting convened and the directors' report been read than Lawyer Neylan was on his feet, demanding a showdown on what had been rumored for many a day-AP's plan to send all its news pictures by telephoto. The idea originated with American Telephone & Telegraph Co. which had spent $2,800,000 on a telephoto system, only to abandon it last summer for lack of patronage. Prime reason: pictures were rarely good or important enough to warrant the expense of telephoto transmission instead of fast delivery by airmail. Secondary reasons: there were transmitting stations...
...years' work by the Bell Laboratories, the equipment was built on a new principle.* It could send 11 sq. in. of picture per minute, half a newspaper page in 17 min. The result was so nearly perfect that a layman could hardly distinguish between original print and telephoto. But A. T. & T. would not consider re-entering the precarious picture business by itself. Rather, it wanted one or more of the picture agencies to take the project over, leasing the $16,000 machines and A. T. & T. wires at $56 per mile per year...
...matter of routine. The job would cost more than a million dollars a year, $560,000 in wire tolls alone. With careful secrecy AP sent Editor Huse on the road to sound out member publishers in 25 key cities. In many cities one publisher was invited to underwrite the telephoto project for his territory, with the understanding that if AP adopted it, any other member paper could subscribe to the service and reduce the underwriter's cost. Operations could begin next autumn. When first making his rounds, Editor Huse prudently steered clear of all Hearst and Scripps-Howard papers...
...Candid Cameraman Erich Salomon, Photographer Lohse has no secret technique, depends on snapping well-composed pictures, developing and enlarging them himself. His F 1.3 lens is the fastest used, excepting only the cinema's F 1.4. His little Contax special cost him $225 (the lens alone $170), a telephoto attachment to catch long-distance candid shots $80 more. He has a right angle telescope-finder to snap people while they think he is snapping someone else...
...issue which reached the U. S. last week displayed a telephoto of the California earthquake, shots of the Cambridge crew, the running of the United Hunts' Challenge Cup, fashion, disaster and cinema pictures, and a fine photograph of Private Cruddas of the ist Green Howards belting Private Alexandra of the ist Oxon & Bucks in a boxing match. The magazine is published weekly in London, costs sixpence...