This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel
Last August, we wrote about how renowned photojournalist David Burnett was spotted using a large format camera at the London Olympics. If you’ve been wondering how the photographs turned out, today’s your lucky day.
Here’s an inside look at how Burnett’s project came to be, and the beautiful images that resulted.TV cameras spotted Burnett using his old press camera during a gymnastics event
Burnett tells us that he was shooting as part of a team working in conjunction with the International Olympic Committee museum’s photo team. He was given the freedom to cover the Games in the style of his choice, which gave him the freedom to shoot with a 1940s Speed Graphic camera and a 1943 Aerial reconnaissance lens.
Burnett photographed with a Speed Graphic camera similar to this one
He ended up shooting 350 black-and-white 4×5 sheets using the camera, of which he has scanned roughly one third.
Burnett tells us that photographing sports using a Speed Graphic comes with its fair share of difficulties:
As you can imagine, shooting sports (you only get ONE frame… there is no such thing as “FPS”… its more like “FPM”) with a Speed Graphic is challenging in …
By: Michael Zhang
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