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 p.3 #4 · Open Heart Surgery (graphic) | |
I'm a medical photographer who has done a lot of cases, mostly eye surgery, actually had a short segment of 16mm film on Discovery once. Anyway i always worked for a hospital or a clinic, so my images belong to them. Actually had a friend negotiate rites to his pics while he was employed by a two different hospitals. The ones I have worked for have never gone for that.
My first case I ever photographed was an open heart case in the mid '70s. I was relagated to the third riser, all I had was a 55 micro. The surgeon kept complaining that none of the photos my group did were close enough. So i just said well if you want the imges closer I have to be closer, can't get what you want from back here. So he said well why don't you come down and get closer, I took one step forward and was out of the OR faster than I know what hit me, head nurse. I actually wrote the MD a note apologizing saying that the group needed a a 100 or 200mm lens for this kind of work, he wrote back to say forget it.
Anyway how did you set up your rig for that POV, were you and the camera above the field? Or was the camera and you had a video feed? Or were you through a microscope? Just interesting how problems are solved.
Tom
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I am wondering about the security clearance and sterile equipment questions... Please? This stuff is really fascinating...