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...feet, filming the approaching riflemen. "He was incredibly tenacious," Javers reported. "Then I saw him go down. And I saw one of the attackers stick a shotgun right into his face?inches away, if that. Bob's brain was blown out of his head. It splattered on the NBC minicam. I'll never forget that sight as long as I live. I ran, and then I dived head first into the bush and scrambled as far into the swamp as I could...
Technical support has been provided by the truckload: actually, seven 40-ft. trailers. To broadcast from 24 different sites, ABC will be using 25 color cameras, including five mobile units and four Electronic Sports Gatherers-minicam-eras with backpack power sources. The ESGs, never used for live broadcasting at an Olympics before, should give ABC the flexibility it believes is essential...
...portable cameras is not new. Shoulder-held black and white models ("creepy-peepies") made their debut on the floor of the 1964 nominating conventions, and color models were used four years later. Yet their blurred pictures badly needed improvement. CBS led the way with the camera it calls the minicam, and new Japanese models (one is called the "Handy-Looky") now weigh as little as 12 lbs. and produce images of good quality...
More than 5,000 minicam enthusiasts were willing to crowd into an exhibition gallery in Rockefeller Center last week to see what experts could do with their minicams. All of the 300 prints on view were enlarged and unretouched from the original postage stamp negatives. They represented the work of 25 photographers, ranging from socialite amateurs to Professional Photographer Thomas D. McAvoy of Washington, whose candid-camera shots of President Roosevelt (on ammonia-sensitized film) first appeared in TIME two months...
Perhaps the most expert minicam operator is Dr. Paul Wolff of Frankfort, Germany, who bought one of the first Leica cameras, has since paid for his passion for traveling by selling his tourist snapshots Twenty-eight Wolff prints were on view. Easily the most striking photograph was a head-on shot of a sneering horse (see ait) taken in 1/60th of a second on panchromatic film by F. Fahnestock of New York...