Back then.....
Yep, those were the days - $10 a pic! I had a mobile kit and would drive out to the girl's home and shoot her there. Now they all live with their parents or room together because they can't afford their own place.
Shot film with my Minolta, just sold it recently. First digital was an Olympus 2500, a real work horse. Next was Olympus E10 - it was the bomb! Then on to Nikons.
Saved huge on film, but now that is completely lost on post production. A day of shooting costs me 1 day of post production. Phone calls, email, the typical goings on in the office can push that to 1.5 days with all the interruptions. Add video and it can run to a full 2 days, and we are talking 12 hour days.
I would run one ad in LA Weekly at the end of the month, just before rent was due, and it would provide girls for a month. Nearly all girls were required to come out for a looksee. Few will do that now. The atmosphere was different then, the girls were doing it for excitement as much as money, now it is all about the money. That attitude has negatively affected their performance. An unprecedented number of girls are "escorting" which really flattens their performance ruins their attitude and changes their personality - not for the better.
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