Window Watchers (June 2, 1954)

hi window Watchers you know what this is respect to do it's a camera and no now with summer coming on we're going to be outside we're going to be doing just a lot of things that are fun going on vacations and it's always a lot of fun to take a camera along and take pictures of some of the things that we're doing so that we will always be able to remember just by looking at the pictures none of the good times we've had and so I've asked my friend John Morgan to come over today and to tell some things about cameras he's the photographer you see so I figured that he'd probably know a few things about campus that you and I wouldn't know and I see that you have some some different kinds of cameras here Justin would you explain them to it we're sure honey this one here is a fine little camera for people there's not too much to it to get too involved so it comes apart very readily now this part here is the lens of the camera big dark circling center yes and in the middle of it is the lens part through which the light travels to make the picture in other words a picture kind of just goes right into this little lens right that's right and this part here along the top this long tube with this little hole in the back is called the viewfinder and that's what you look through to put your picture and the the app to do which you want to photograph in the right part of the picture now we take this apart very slowly here and we'll tip this up like this and if you look down and there I think you'll be able to see the shutter click now Oh see that uh-huh but again right like that now you see that's how the light gets in to the film to take the picture when you get all set and lined up you just push this little gadget up here and click clicks and you can hear it click and the light goes through and it's recorded on the back well now wait a minute let's see here now you line up look through this little piece right here through the bag to see what you're going to take a picture of and then by pushing this we've got a shutter click yeah all right then that opens this little lens so if the light goes in and then closes it in a hurry and that's what happens when we can hear it it opens and then it closes right that's right yes and just exactly the way the camera works and all cameras work the same way this is a nice simple little one to which you have very little trouble operating now we'll set this one right over here and what I have another one here which is a little more has a few more gadgets on she wears that has a lot of buttons yes now down here in the front right up close here you can see it has a little knob that you can push back and forth what our for now this controls the amount of light that is transmitted on a hazy day that's a day when the Sun isn't out so bright you put it over there that opens the diaphragm inside there's a litte more life can go through that will make a rather large opening in there now on a bright day that's a day when the sun is shining you push it to the middle one you see there's a little symbol on there that looks like the sun is shining and that closes the whole down a little bit and then on a real bright sunny day or the day and which you're perhaps down at the seashore or in the wintertime when there's a lot of snow around and as everything is real bright you'll push it way down to there that makes it a little hole much smaller oh I see that on a hazy day we put this little button way over its marked hazy Sun then it opens up this lens in here so that more if hazy days means it kind of dark being that's right and then it opens up this little hole so its bigger so that more light can get in and then on a bright day it closes it just a little bit more right that's right so not too much light gets in and then if we push it way over here to a very very bright day we don't need all that light so then it closes it up just a tiny that's right I do but what happens if we we take a picture in a very very bright day and we forget to move a button on the camera and so it's over here with the shutter is opening a great big wide circle well that what occurs then is what we call an overexposed negative and if people have on white shirts or anything is real brighten and it will create sort of a halo perhaps you have seen pictures that have at the end of people little bright things running out over their shoulders but that's what occurs when you forget when you get too much light in the picture that's right and another nice thing about this particular camera is that you can get a flash attachment for it which goes right here on the side it's fastened on here and just screws on the side here and there are batteries put in here and you have seen flash bulbs oh yeah what are all these little funny lines let's aluminum foil in there that will go up and that gives you the light for taking pitches inside when you don't have the use of the Sun like you do when you're taking pictures outside that's sort of like carrying your own sunshine around in your pocket oh I thing can you use these bulbs more than once no those Bob's are only good for one picture once you leg used it it's finished you throw it away and have to use another lose another one that's right well it can take pictures in the house oh yeah sure when you have birthday parties and that sort of thing why you get everybody all lined up can go now we look at the view finder on this tiny one here where's the viewfinder Oh on this one big but I don't see any is it right there well that's the lens but you look down in here all the top end of it that's right you're looking down through the top this has a little lens hood here you see a little viewing hood to the top that holes out thing the sunshine keeps the bright light off this little ground glass that you're looking on here and the nice thing about this particular camera is that there when you're looking here your image is right side up and it makes it very easy to compose that is to get the right the thing that you want to photograph in the right place on the picture so you know something that I think maybe we should talk about right now is um when we're taking a picture you know sometimes when i take a picture with my camera i take all these pictures and then after the film comes back from the developer well i might have a picture of a very good friend of mine and the heads cut off of it or the forest cut off either that or they're all feet that's because you haven't used this finder properly you haven't gotten their heads and you try to get too much too close to them and you have cut off the heads or their feet you haven't had tipped account what happens in the great many cases i'll let me have it is when you point it like this you get excited when you're taking a picture and you'll leave a tip it up or down and that will cut off there now let me see hold it just like this and then just push the button down and up like that right that's right now a good little rule to remember when you're taking pictures is to hold the camera real steady that's that what happened perhaps you've seen on occasion some of the pictures come back they're all fuzzy you can hardly recognize that because the that the subject i'm taking a picture of the dog and the picture came back fuzzy wouldn't that means the dog it move not necessarily i think in most cases you'll find the person who has taken the pictures the one who will move it's very difficult for people to stand still for a twenty fifth of a second that seems like a real short period of time but that's the duration of the time that that little thing is open there's a 20-bit and people just find it very difficult to stand still that long well how can we make sure that we're standing well if you sort of rest your elbows down here like this and hold you breath when you click it will tend to eliminate so you'll say one two three yeah well you don't have to be quite so dramatic about it but that's the right thing but just holding your breath then will tend to keep the camera steady that's right now you notice you're doing something else that it's rather a common fault you have this finger here over the lens of the pictures of it instead of getting your friends or your pet dog you'll wind up with nothing but something for the record for the FBI your fingerprint I fingerprint I know that's something that I always have to remember to think of before I take a picture is a look and see whether or not my fingers in front of the lens well what about the film that goes into these cameras and how do you how do you put the film in now we were up by a camera by the way how much could I buy a camera what about this one here how much this one runs around five dollars for that I'm this one here is about 25 because it has agreement then you gauge it you can get them so that this would probably take just about good pick oh yes I think that's a fine camera to start with fur and window works it's not very expensive but what about taking it apart and pushing this in that netting and putting this film and how am I going to know if I buy a new camera how to do all of these things well the nice part about all that is that when you buy these things the manufacturer has been thoughtful enough to include in the package of fine little booklet that has all the pictures in there and the parts of the camera and show you just exactly how to do it o yer tells me how to open the camera how to put the sale man what kind of film to use oh this is very nice and in addition to that you'll find that the the man from whom you buy the camera will explain the great many of these things so that before you leave the store you'll find that you're pretty well acquainted with me your purchase oh that's well something nice to know um we've got some film there you know I've never seen film I mean I've seen it in the role but I've never seen what it looks like on the inside well in order to save thee the window watches some trouble and some expense will open this one alright let's do that they can see what's on the inside now we first we'll open up the end and out comes the roll all wrapped up and light type paper and we'll just unwrap this right fast oh this you can't you can do this part in in the daylight you see now we have a roll here it's all see now we break the seal this is the way you normally load a carrier to break that seal tea and you can roll this out to put it in the camera there's no film there yet oh that black heart isn't the film why I always thought that was the film and if I enrolled it too far I'd spoil all the pictures no no we haven't gotten to the film yet we'll we'll just pull this out a little bit further here and give the whole lot and then see this is interesting we will mark about those little dots in the window now here we come this is the film you see oh that light peace man yeah that's the film you see it's hello gelatin base Oh light-sensitive this is what the pictures go on that's right well then after this is the part that the man who is making the pictures up for us dips it in all sorts of things and just what the negative is that's right the negative didn't see you will have this same piece of material returned through you with that where the negatives on it let's see what's on the back look on the back oh thank you same number that's the little numbers and things that appear and the little red light little and back into the camera that says you see here's one that means you had the first picture then you wind it up in the tool and the bee there's different spaces and these circus you buy the cameras have different size pictures on a two and a quarter and some are three and a quarter inches long and that's why these are separated some of them are further apart you see how far it is from one to two erina 12 here is a real close together well then when we put them in the camera now let's sit walk think we can hurry up or i'm gonna try it will rewind this just you'll have to screw the lawn here a second line that up now open this up and this goes in down in the back here Daffy and then this feeds up over here and goes to this little spot here yep this part goes in here and you wind it up like that get it straight this is rather important get a new street like that and you close it up and you're all set well I certainly learned some things and I was thought was kind of fun to look at this film all unrolled too so that nobody else has to spoil them John will you come back and show us how to develop these films some other time I sure will every glance okay thanks a lot for coming today and with the you tomorrow okay goodbye now you