Was watching one of those FBI-COP dramas on CBS last night and they don't have a clue

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Story line included a paparazzi shooting pics of an actress who likes to parade around in a tight bikini and they had him shooting FILM!
They go into this guys house and he has all sorts of film strips hanging around from cords, really once he has developed his negatives he would sleave them and really he wouldn't be developing color negatives anyway. He also has around a 100 or so 8x10's tacked to the wall. They also show several developer pans setting around in this large room with all of the other stuff-those generally would be in a smaller dark room.

Later they catch the guy and open his camera up and pull out his film, what was this supposed to be like 1995?
Hell paparazzi were some of the first to go digital, some with cell phone hook ups to transmit live to their publisher to be the first one out with the pics, but I guess no one had told the television writers about that.
I could just see the FBI agent pull a flash card out of a camera and stomp on it.

[sbug_adam]

hah.. i can see that but then again, this makes it seem that its more sinister!

adam

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But really they need to get with the times. Would have been a cool thing if they went to his house and saw 2 Apple Cinema Screens rotating through pictures of her and then all of a sudden see pics that were currently being shot showing up as he transmitted them to his computer. That way they could see that the paparazzi was at her house with her and their agent at her pool which would really have had them going nutso since they had him on a short list of being a killer.

[suzyjazz]

Their way sounds cheaper.... probably all it is.

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Man the cost would be negligable, comps could be used in other scenes in other episodes and of course the cameras could be used in other scenes as props.

Wonder what happens to the "prop" cameras after they have been used a couple seasons-can't have the latest CSI/FBI/PAPARAZZI using a 3 year old model. A couple thousand for a new camera doesn't mean spit in a the budget costs-they spend that much or more shooting single scenes for an hour show.