CAMERA OPERATOR

Job Definition:

Job Description:

• Operate process camera and related darkroom equipment to photograph and develop negatives of material to be printed.

Duties and Tasks:

• 1) Feeds film into automatic film processor that develops, fixes, washes, and dries film.
  2) Measures original layouts and determines proportions needed to make reduced or enlarged photographic prints for pasteup.
  3) Exposes high contrast film for predetermined exposure time.
  4) Immerses film in series of chemical baths to develop images and hangs film on rack to dry.
  5) Performs exposure tests to determine line, halftone, and color reproduction exposure lengths for various photographic factors.
• .6) Mounts material to be photographed on copyboard of camera
• 7) Measures density of continuous tone images to be photographed to set exposure time for halftone images.
• 8) Selects and installs screens and filters in camera to produce desired effects.

Activities:

• 1) Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• 2) Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
• 3) Controlling Machines and Processes — Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).

Abilities:

• Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Knowledge

• 1) Fine Arts — Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
• 2) Chemistry — Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.