Press Row

[texkam]

at the 1958 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship at Freedom Hall in Louisville, KY. Kentucky vs Seattle.

- photo by (Louisville) Courier-Journal staffer Charlie Pence.

Boy, they did it the hard way back then. Look, they're in suits too.

[rockpics]

Manual focus and exposure with flash blub for fill light. That's definitely the hard way.
Several of them need longer socks.

[Darkman]

Can you imagine how much all that crap weighed?! Ugh. My forearms are burning just thinking about it.

[toverman]

Originally Posted by Darkman

Can you imagine how much all that crap weighed?! Ugh. My forearms are burning just thinking about it.

I'm sure some of it was heavy, but I bet most of it's lighter than a pro digital body with a decent lens on it!

[Sonny]

The guy closest to the camera (far right) is using a P&S.

[thehatguy]

Sure it isn't a movie camera?

John

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by thehatguy

Sure it isn't a movie camera?

John

It's possible, but that was my poor attempt at a joke.

[andyz]

What would they think of today's cameras?

[texkam]

I wonder how many images they would typically come back with? Shooting with those old Speedgraphics was a slow, complex task. Check out the sportswriters too .... no laptops. Those are probably freshly mimeographed papers (mmmm, remember that smell). What the heck is the 2nd guy from the left shooting with?

[andyz]

That guy wanted to sit up front so he took the binocular viewer sightseeing thing off the pole outside, put in a nickle and then he got to see up close.

[Jim Boyd]

I'd be willing to bet that most, if not all of them, were paid for their work.