Navy Basic Photography Manual

[rpcrowe]

This manual can answer many of the often asked technical questions about photography.

http://petapixel.com/2013/03/12/a-fr...f-the-us-navy/

I cannot believe that I was required to remember all this stuff including the multiple formulas used in the various aspects of photography. We would be promoted based on another formula which combined the results of a test along with our professional evaluations plus some other parameters which I don't even remember.

Anyway this manual could be fun for today's photographers to read and is a stroll along memory lane for us old timers...

Actually, this edition was published a year after I retired from the Navy in 1989 after 32-years of Naval Service...

[IzzieK]

Now we know why you use a Canon!!! Or not...

Seriously, it will be an interesting read...

[JR1]

I don't think I have ever read a manual to this day, I have never even opened the manuals that came with any of my cameras, video recorders, tv, computer, I just enjoy finding out by trial and error that way I think you remember better.

I do love old cameras though and have a Nikon F Photomic Ftn Apollo my first real camera, Nikkormat Ftn, and Praktica Super TL

As for promoiton on knowledge, it happened and people who were as good but not "technically minded lost out

[Richard Lundberg]

thanks for the link on the page you will find a link to Adobe's 50 Photoshop Youtube tutorials

[dennybeall]

So, you must have spent some time in Anacostia? Perhaps some time in The Brickskeller in Georgetown....
I was headed that way myself but ended up with crossed cannons instead.

[Cananeer]

after I retired from the Navy in 1989 after 32-years of Naval Service...

Richard - I retired from Uncle Sams canoe club in Jan 99 after 26 years
Thanks for the link!!!

[rpcrowe]

I fought like heck to keep away from Anacostia and Pensacola during my 32 years in the Navy. My only time in Pensacola was attending the Navy Basic School of Photography over the summer of 1958.. In fact, as a Senior Chief Photographer's Mate, there were no duty stations available except for those two. I switch to a drug and alcohol counselor in order to keep away from Anacostia and Pensacola.

For the information of those members not familiar with the intricacies of Naval Photography, Anacostia was the Naval Photography Center in the Washington, DC area and Pensacola, Florida was the location of the Naval Schools of Photography.

Once I left the East Coast (1964) I spent the next 25 years of Naval Service away from the East Coast; mostly in San Diego, CA or aboard ships or in units deploying out of San Diego...