How Photo Mechanic was born at the Super Bowl 25 years ago.
camera were a bit low resolution, especially when the editors did a tight crop. But since AP’s Super Bowl coverage was all digital by then, Jim asked me to just “rubber stamp” every photo that PM processed with this IPTC field indicating a digital source.
Project Manager Howard Gros sets up laptops in the Associated Press trailer that are destined for the stadium seats at Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego, California. © 1998 Dennis Walker Four local-hire game-day freelancers wait for camera disks to be delivered and ingested using Piranha servers in the Associated Press trailer at Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego, California. © 1998 Dennis Walker
Each photographer in the seats had a “laptop operator” sitting next to them with a Mac laptop zip-tied to an upside-down milk crate. The crate held a battery , a BreezeCOM wireless link, and radio gear for voice communication between the laptop operator and an assigned photo editor in the trailer. I recall two photo editors assigned to the four fixed photographers, each editor covering two photographers.
AP Photo editors process photos of remote laptops from the Associated Press trailer using Photo Mechanic at Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego, California. © 1998 Dennis Walker When they found photos they wanted, they would copy them to a mounted folder on the desktop. This would initiate a lossless compression transfer of the RAW photo from the stadium seat laptop to the editor’s folder on their Mac in the trailer. After all desired photos were copied, the disk was remotely erased by the editor in preparation for more photos to be captured.
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