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I couldn't imagine having to set up with all those "toys"
All I can say, Kungpao, is if I was responsible for shipping these boxes on an airplane, I would hate to watch how the baggage handlers throw luggage onto the plane
-- Steve Fine's (SI's Director of Photography) frustration with his photographers' shots of a Patriots touchdown during the first half of Super Bowl XXXVIII
Eamon Hickey wrote an interesting story (way back in 2004) describing how SI took 16,183 digital photos on Super Bowl Sunday and processed them in time for printing Tuesday morning. It goes into a lot of technical details. Makes you realize how far technology has come in 4 years. I'd love to read another article like this, but set in 2008.
"Staff photographer Bob Rosato's collection of gear is fairly typical. To a football game he takes four or five EOS-1D bodies and 600mm f/4, 400mm f/2.8, 300mm f/2.8, 70-200mm f/2.8, and 50mm f/1.4 lenses. For basketball, he adds five or six EOS-1Ds cameras and dispenses with the 400 and 600mm lenses. Of the ten or so camera bodies that he takes to a basketball game, many are of course mounted overhead or around the basket for remote operation."
*whistle*
I'll just have to settle for the stock 35-210mm f/2.8-4.8 lens on my dinky Canon A720IS PowerShot
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