This question came up in a discussion about Ukraine's reluctance to give photojournalists access to the front. As I write this, The Guardian has just published an article by two of its journalists in Kharkiv, but those journalists were not allowed into Kharkiv before the Ukrainian army drove out the Russian forces yesterday.
I'm inclined to think that one of the reasons for exclusion from the front is that a journalist with a smartphone, let alone a digital camera, can take a photograph or shoot video, and send it to an editor, or indeed to the entire world, in about 60 seconds. For an example of one way to do this, see frame.io's Camera to Cloud Service. It's possible for a journalist to report, including with still or video images, contemporaneously with what's happening on the ground. This raises obvious security concerns.
Does anyone know what the process was when journalists used film cameras, from the shot to appearance in a newspaper or on a television screen? I'm also curious about what impact the use of 35mm (e.g. the Leica M) rather than 4x5 had on the process. One other question. When did use of film cameras in an active battle zone end?
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