Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Harrison I thought digital was growing in sports photography as I am sure I have seen some D1s in use. Interesting to hear from a bona fide photographer who has been exposed to, and trounced by, digital media in the field. The only immediate problem with mobile communications (at least in the UK) is that the digital GSM networks only operate at a maximum of 9600 baud, so transmitting digital images can be a time consuming process. Over here, you may just win the race at the 1 hour lab! Simon Harrison McClary wrote: > Most news photographers shoot digital in this day and age. If they > do not do it full time they do it when necessary. Mostly for the > speed factor. > > I remember when I covered the 1993 Super Bowl in Atlanta for UPI I > was shooting film. Some of the AP guys were shooting digital,not all > as they did not trust it fully at that point, but they would pop out > the digital card from their cameras and send them into the AP lab and > they would have a photo in Washington to be re routed to the rest of > the country in the time it took us to load the film processor. > > About a year later I was covering the CMA show here in Nashville, > once again for UPI. I was shooting film and the AP guy next to me > had a digital camera, a Mac notebook and a cell phone. During the > advertisement breaks he would transmit photos to Washington. I sat > there watching him wondering why in the h@#$ I was even bothering to > make photos. By the time my photos got out most papers already had > AP images and had put their sections to bed. > > In the past 3 weeks I have done two shoots that would have been much > simpler had I had a digital camera. Instead I am having to shoot the > assignment, run to a 1 hour lad, soup film come home edit it then > scan it to transmit. Both times the time factor has come into play. > If these kind of assignments continue to come in you can bet I'll be > getting that new Canon digital camera. I'll probably shoot two > bodies, one digital and one film if prints are needed. > > But you are right, there is a place for digital and it is growing daily. > -- > Harrison McClary > http://www.mcclary.net