[HPforGrownups] Re: Colin's camera?

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 90141

On 3 Feb 2004 at 7:46, Calimora at yahoo.com wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Dysis" <d.marchel at c...> wrote:
> I think that this is a flint, as modern cameras on batteries, which 
> wouldn't work in Hogwarts. The movie version solves this with an old 
> flash pan camera which doesn't involve electricity. On one of these 
> cameras it's the flash ignition of a phospherous compound and the 
> direct exposure of a photosensitive plate that captures the image. 
> I'm fairly certain that JKR didn't intend for Colin to have an 
> antique like this as the books state that developing the *film* in 
> the proper potions causes the images to move. The ancient not 
> electric cameras didn't have film per se, they had single shot 
> slates.

Not so.

I have a camera purchased for school (media studies class) in 1990. 
It was a fairly cheap camera - the minimum I needed to take photos 
with for my class. It is not electrically powered. Yes, it has an 
electric flash and if I want to use that I need to put batteries in 
it - but for basic operation it does not use electricity at all - I 
haven't had batteries in it since about 1990 - and I still use it 
occasionally. It's a Hanimex 35es - except mine is black, 
http://www.ozcamera.com/photo%207/706.jpg shows it.

A fairly modern camera doesn't need to be electrical.

 
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