> > Interesting. The show was about USMC combat photographer. > > > A friend's wife just went through the Combat photog school(Army), they > were using Canon stuff there. > > But the US Navy and Marines has long used Nikon stuff (in fact they kept > the Nikon F3 in short run production for several years after it was > discntinued on the consumer market). Now-a-days, the military uses whatever is in the GSA catalog, so you can get either Nikon or Canon, depending on what's in stock when they fill your requisition.
I took some Army PAO correspondence courses on photography, and the course-ware was illustrated with images of a Cannon F1. Actually, the course-ware was nothing but the old paper booklets scanned into PDF files and an online test. I already knew the stuff about composition, and camera controls but the part about scaling images to fit newspaper columns was interesting; as was the information on how to set up a darkroom in a tar-paper shack ... and how to design the tar-paper shack to set it up in. In Iraq, our PAO had a Nikon D100, and some old Sony digital point-n-shoot cameras that recorded the images on a mini disk. The standard issue Dell laptops came with no image processing software installed; not even the CD that came with the Nikon. All you got was Windoze XP and M$ Orifice, so the PAO was submitting jpegs straight from the camera. The Army issued Canon A60s to the MPs & anyone else they though might need to take pictures for documentation. I took my own *ist-D and a couple of lenses, along with a PZ-1p for backup. Fortunately, I never needed to use the backup, because there was no place to get C-41 film processed and I didn't have the kit to set up a darkroom for B&W. I had Photoshop 7 on my personal laptop, along with Irfanview and the Pentax Photobrowser. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
