OT: Cameras (was: Muggle things in Hogwarts)

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No: HPFGUIDX 9121

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Scott wrote:
> 
> > --I think that you must be right, despite Hermione's comments.  
What
> > I mean is that Colin certainly implies he's using a muggle camera,
> > and that it is only the potion that the pictures are developed in
> > that makes them move.  I had just assumed that the camera had a
> > magical element but then perhaps not. Any explanations?
> 
> Explanation 1:
> 
> Well, in an older, non-Instamatic type camera, the kind where you 
change
> the lenses yourself and carry around huge camera cases with lots of
> different lenses and filters and stuff and have genuine lens caps 
that
> you can forget to remove (instead of the modern ones that disappear 
like

On a REAL camera (like mine :) you can NOT forget to remove the lens 
caps because then you couldn't see anything in the view-finder and 
that would remind you... because a REAL camera is a reflex camera :) 
And it weighs at least a few pounds...

> Star Trek doors)  the only non-mechanical part is the teeny little
> battery for the light meter. I don't think batteries would 
necessarily be
> affected. So it should work just fine.

But the light meter is electronic so it may stop working, but in most 
cases, especially outside, the light can be estimated by looking up 
to the sky... btw my Zenit doesn't even need a battery for the light 
meter. The Praktica does need one, but its light meter is by far 
superior to the Zenit's. It IS a real camera, nothing automatic, but 
everything precise and reliable...

> 
> AND, people who are into photography and develop their own film, 
which
> Colin does, tend to be purists about equipment and use the "real" 
cameras

Yes, i forgot about this, if he develops his own film, then he must 
be a real photographer and then, he must use a real camera.

> rather than the little idiot boxes. So I bet he has an old Nikon or
> something, like I do, rather than a Fuji technology fest, which
> presumably would screw up.

Yes, that's what i was talking about...

> 
> Explanation 2:
> 
> It's a Flint.

I don't think so. Maybe she forgot about it, but we explained it very 
well, so it's not a Flint anymore :)

And everybody, sorry for being offtopic with this camera stuff... :)

> 
> --Amanda

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