Neal Shields
14-Mar-2002, 14:33
In the November/December 2001 issue of View Camera Magazine, there is an awesome photograph of a Rolex watch. This photograph is used in the context of demonstr ating the capability of digital photography. The photographer has even gone so far as to follow the convention of setting the hands at 10:10. (Some say this st arted during WWII as ?V? for victory.) Obviously there a great deal of attentio n to detail.
As a failure mode of Rolex watches is for the threads in the crown to strip, I n oticed that, in the photograph, the crown isn?t screwed down. I couldn?t believ e that the photographer overlooked this, and then it hit me; that was the only w ay he could get the second hand to stop without waiting for days for the watch t o wind down.
My question is: would this have been necessary to stop the second hand with film ?
Also, in the magazine the ?L? in Rolex looks like an ?M?, could this be a functi on of digital resolution enhancement, or is it just reflection or part of the pr inting process?
Neal
As a failure mode of Rolex watches is for the threads in the crown to strip, I n oticed that, in the photograph, the crown isn?t screwed down. I couldn?t believ e that the photographer overlooked this, and then it hit me; that was the only w ay he could get the second hand to stop without waiting for days for the watch t o wind down.
My question is: would this have been necessary to stop the second hand with film ?
Also, in the magazine the ?L? in Rolex looks like an ?M?, could this be a functi on of digital resolution enhancement, or is it just reflection or part of the pr inting process?
Neal