Studio Photography, May 1st, 2006
I worked at the 1980 Winter Olympics as a professional photojournalism Technologies and workflows have changed dramatically since then. A quick recap of my workflow at the 1980 Games will reveal the sweeping changes that have occurred behind the scenes at this world-class sporting event during the past quarter century.
The biggest change in sports photography has been the development of highperformance, manual focus lenses. The mid-1980s saw the introduction of "big glass lenses," such as the 300mm f/2.8, 400mm f/2.8, and 600mm f/4. These lenses meant that nothing on a hockey arena, luge trac...
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