>> talks about the photographers using "rolls of films", and I saw Steve >> Curry [I'm not sure if my spelling is correct] opening up the back of a >> film camera to shoot the Afghan girl last year. >> Why? Do NG photographers avoid the digital? > > I met Curry on board the aircraft carrier Harry Truman last year and he was > working with two Nikon digital cameras and editing files "on the fly" so to > speak as the photo lab on board had set him up in a space where he could > review > the day's images on their digital editing facility. BTW, the navy > photographers > (mostly women by the way) only used digital cameras - not sure of brand. They > told me they had the capability to process C-41 and make prints up to 8x10. > > Andy > I believe the video that you saw was made in 1995. Digital cameras, at that point, were much less advanced than they are now. As Andy pointed out, it might be a little different now. Roderick
