Photo trivia

[IndyJeff]

I thought it would be fun to have a trivia game in here. This is the way it works, I ask a question and then the first to answer it correctly asks the next question and so on and so on. If you answer the question from memory please state that, likewise if you look it up using the internet provide a link. In case of any discrepencies, as the founder of this trivia game I will make the final decision based upon available information as to who is right.
Once your question is answered you may post as to who got it right first.

FIRST QUESTION

Name the person and place he died to become the first death in the line of duty while working for the Associated Press.


<jepoardy tune begins>

[Andy_T]

In 1876, Mark Kellogg, a stringer, becomes the first AP correspondent to die in the line of duty, at the Battle of Little Bighorn. His final dispatch: "I go with Custer and will be at the death."

Found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press

Best regards,
Andy

[IndyJeff]

We have a winner folks.


Yeah that poor sap, he wasn't the one who supposed to go it was an editor of a newpaper in one of the Dakotas that was supposed to go with Custer to the Little Big Horn. At the last minute the editor came up sick and Mr. Kellog was sent in his place. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time.


Ok Andy, your turn for a question.

Good luck everybody

[Andy_T]

And this is the next question:

The photographer in question was born in Budapest in 1913. He left home at 18 and found a job as a darkroom apprentice with a Berlin picture agency. He shot pictures on the side, and scored his first scoop with some exclusive pictures of Leon Trotsky.

He became famous at the age of 23, when he shot a single photograph. This photograph made him famous around the world and established him as father of a whole new genre of photography. He died in 1954, his death was related to his profession.

Who is the photographer we're looking for?
What is the genre in question?
Which was his most famous picture?

Best regards,
Andy

[Scottes]

Robert Capa (Andrei Freidman)
?
Dying Spanish Soldier

[Scottes]

Genre: War?

[Andy_T]

Scottes,

you nailed it ... 3 out of 3 correct.

Time for your question...

Best regards,
Andy

[Scottes]

OK....

Born in the 1800s, he's one of the original wildlife photographers, and was the first person to take a flash photograph of an animal at night.

Name him.

[Longwatcher]

took me long enough
George Shiras
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/corner/collectible/

Almost forgot extra credit 1913 and apparently deer

[Scottes]

LongWatcher you got it.

Remarkable to think that he went chasing after wildlife with a large format camera and I have tons of problems with a 1.6x DSLR and a 400mm lens....

You win. You're up.

[IndyJeff]

I was part of a trivia thread like this on a sprots board once. It ran to something like 23 pages before the admins locked it. Somebody started a new one but if fell off after about 10-12 pages or so.

[Scottes]

It ran to something like 23 pages before the admins locked it.

Don't give them any ideas! You know how ruthless these power-hungry mods of ours can be!

:-)

[ilya]

I'm out of turn, but my wife just went through a lot of trouble and money to get me a signed original book from this photog, so I'm gonna jump in and ask if you don't mind - Longwatcher you're still up though regardless :)

This photographer has become famous after taking a photograph of John and Yoko in a hug, just hours before John's tragic death in 1980.

[GaryTorello]

I'm out of turn, but my wife just went through a lot of trouble and money to get me a signed original book from this photog, so I'm gonna jump in and ask if you don't mind - Longwatcher you're still up though regardless :)

This photographer has become famous after taking a photograph of John and Yoko in a hug, just hours before John's tragic death in 1980.

Annie Leibovitz



________________
Gary

you always shoot the ones you love

[ilya]

Yup, correct

[Longwatcher]

First the unfair one -
What is the GSD of the best US photo satellite ever. (if you can find out and give me the correct answer on this forum, I will personally arrange for one free ticket to a certain facility in Kansas)

Now for the real one, a multiparter: What person took the first picture with what camera and lens and of what while on the moon and who and when was the first picture of the moon taken?

It should be fairly easy, but took me some time to verify it.

[ilya]

this is going to be a contest in most creative google searching technique

[Longwatcher]

The answer can all be found on one web site (but not the same page)

And anybody that can't get the who and camera of the first part has never read my equipment list.

That would be a hint....
The actual answers to the rest are NOT on my site however.

And while you all are trying to answer the question I will be busy trying to get the flash cards out of the annoying plastic packaging without braking them.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Tim

Would the Satelite be "Qucikbird" ?

[Longwatcher]

CDS,
Nice Satelite, wrong answer to question I did not ask. 8) And that is really the one you don't want to answer anyway, trust me on this.

[Longwatcher]

I have to get off line now,
I will provide one more hint (Blatant this time - at least for the first half) and then I will check for answers in the morning when I show up for work.

http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/20130692.jpg

BTW: for trivia while I was waiting for an answer: Sandisk extreme III 1 GB SD, did buffer full write in 13 secs, Ultra II CF did buffer full write in 16 secs (1DsMKII Raw+M2 at 8 - from buffer full+2 more let go of trigger in continuous mode ). New card readers for CF card 841MB in about 60 secs (Sandisk reader), old 6-in-1 built-in reader took about 35 minutes, new Lexar 5-in-1 took less then 30 secs for 441MB with Extreme III SD card versus old built-in reader of about 9 minutes.

Also Sandisk give a cute little pouch and CD to go with the extreme III SD card.

Lastly in the trivia dept. I only punctured my hand once getting the plastic off. I am getting much better at it.

Almost forgot: T.S. fun need better target then CD rack though.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Higher res than Quickbird eh?
Gotta be newer than Keyhole...

I think you may be tredding awefully close to getting your own self in trouble with the NGA here :rolleyes:

[PeterTaylor]

Image reference AS11-40-5850 ( 258k or 977k )

First picture taken on the moon was by Neil Armstrong, it was an image of a jettison bag.

Camera was a Hassleblad ( 500 Electric Camera ?)
Lens ???

Reference
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/as11-40-5850HR.jpg
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#HiRes

[Penguin_101_1]

. so I can find this back

[Belmondo]

From what I've found, the body was a 500L/70, and the lens.....

The Data Camera was fitted with a new Zeiss lens, a Biogon f-5.6/60 mm, specially designed for NASA, which later became available commercially. Careful calibration tests were performed with the lens fitted in the camera in order to ensure high-quality, low-distortion images. Furthermore, the lens of the camera was fitted with a polarizing filter which could easily be detached.

[Longwatcher]

Well Belmondo got the lens (ziess 60mm), Peter Taylor got the camera (Hassleblad 500 ELM ), person (Neil Armstrong) and what (technically it was pannig shot of the lunar landscape starting at the lunar module for reference). But nobody has answered the first shot of the moon question which was LJM Daguerre in 1839.

I give it to Peter Taylor because he got closest first and Belmondo is a moderator and there might be accusations of favoritism if I gave it to him (since he bought me lunch)

[Longwatcher]

Higher res than Quickbird eh?
Gotta be newer than Keyhole...

I think you may be tredding awefully close to getting your own self in trouble with the NGA here :rolleyes:

Actually I would get in trouble with NRO not NGA. NGA just looks at pictures, NRO makes the things (okay they have some one make it for them).

And no comment.

[PeterTaylor]

I have two very distinct but different areas of interest in photography.

One motorsport, and the other the photography of war or conflict. As motorsport would be far too easy I have spent some time in thinking up this question.

So my question is:-

Name the American freelance photographer-reporter who went missing/was captured on April 6, 1970 whilst on assignment for Time magazine. At the time he was on Cambodia Route 1 near Vietnam’s border.

Hints
1. He had a good friend who was English, his name was Tim Page.
2. He had a very famous father.



For further information :-

Two other reporters went missing at the same time.
Two other reporters went missing on the 5th the day before
And at least two others during the month of April.
(For further clues I could name these)

[CyberDyneSystems]

Sean Flynn
Son of Erroll

CONUNDRUM OF MIA VIETNAM NEWSMAN SOLVED
EXCLUSIVE TO THE SPOTLTGHT
MIKE BLAIR, May 20, 1991

The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Sean Flynn, son of the late Hollywood actor, Errol Flynn, in communist Cambodia during the Vietnam War has been solved. But the U.S. State Department has failed to confirm it.

FIynn, working as a freelance writer for TIME magazine, and Dana Stone, a reporter for CBS News, became missing on April 6, 1970 while covering the war in Southeast Asia.

The SPOTLIGHT has learned from sources in Bangkok, Thailand, that the remains of Flynn and Stone have been located in Cambodia by a team from Britain's Grenada Television, which went to Cambodia to check out a declassified CIA report that the two newsmen had been executed by communist forces.

Tim Page, a veteran Indochina news photographer and friend of Flynn and Stone, was part of the team that visited Cambodia.

Page has issued a statement that the Grenada team were able to trace Flynn and Stone during the last year if their lives "from point of capture to grave."

The communist Cambodian government had allowed the team to search areas of eastern Cambodia, near the Vietnamese border, for the remains of the Americans.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Back to longwatchers theme,... sort of...

Who took the first attempted aerial photographs in the United States?

...and in what City did the photographer make this first attempt?

[PeterTaylor]

CyberDyneSystems

is correct, the last time I asked this question it took the person 4-5 days to find the answer.




Well done you have most of all the references I have. One other good reference book is ‘Requiem’. This book is dedicated to the 135 photographers who lost their lives in Vietnam and Indochina. Both Tim Page and Horst Faas were two photographers who were wounded in Vietnam gathered the main photos for this book. It is well worth a look at if you can find a copy.

Peter

[defordphoto]

Back to longwatchers theme,... sort of...

Who took the first attempted aerial photographs in the United States?

...and in what City did the photographer make this first attempt?

James Wallace Black
Boston
1860

[PeterTaylor]

William Nicholson Jennings
July 4th, 1893, when he was the first person to successfully photograph Philadelphia from a free-floating balloon. This was the first city in the world to be photographed in such a fashion. Boston had been photographed earlier, but from an anchored balloon.

http://www.amblermainstreet.org/Newt/Historical%20Aerial%20Photo%20of%20Ambler.htm

[CyberDyneSystems]

Both wrong I'm afraid,. ... RFM is half right... look again at the second part of the question..

The Boston shot is where Black was succesfull


Peter,. I am unsure how the distinction you are making would disqualify the Boston photo (even if it is the wrong answer to my question)

Tethered ballon or free floating played no part in the question I ask...

Still interesting info.. I did not realize that the Philly shot had been unique in that manner. :)

[vcutag]

Petit Bicetre, France, by Gaspard Felix Tournachon in 1858?

Source: http://www.geospectra.net/kite/history/history.htm

EDIT: Sorry, that was the first actual photo, the first attempt was "made by Colonel Aimé Laussedat of the French Army Corps of Engineers (Wolf and Dewitt 2000). In 1849, he experimented with kites and balloons, but he was unsuccessful."

EDIT 2: However, this is incorrect, as it was not in the US. :-\
Still, interesting to learn.

[CyberDyneSystems]

All good info... and yes the Paris photo is the first in the world...

But.. I hate to say.. my question was specific to the US...

Again.. RFMsports has the correct photographer..
His first attempt was a little closer to home ;)

[CyberDyneSystems]

Are my specifics to ridiculous? :rolleyes:

I did leave a clue or two...

[vcutag]

Are my specifics to ridiculous? :rolleyes:

I did leave a clue or two...

That's a stumper to me, but I don't have any books on the history of photography to hunt through. Google returned nothing helpful. :-\

[Belmondo]

Back to longwatchers theme,... sort of...

Who took the first attempted aerial photographs in the United States?

...and in what City did the photographer make this first attempt?

William Black, PRovidence, RI

[CyberDyneSystems]

Ding!!!!

We have a winner! :)

Providence it seems .. has a rather long yet hidden history of Airships.. the tallest building in the City was built to be a refuelling station for Airships.. there are still big booms and tanks in the uppermost floors.

So Tom,. you ask the next Trivia question.

[Belmondo]

I'm gong to defer back to CDS to designate the next question-asker. I'm going to be on the road for the next couple days and won't be able to monitor this thread.

Thanks.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Any takers...

It's officially open season...

First one to post a question is official...