Cool photo of early 90s press photographers

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It's from Andrew Savulich's work during his time in Times Square during the 80s
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/odd-old-days-in-times-square/#

Interesting group of cameras and lenses
 
So, it is from eighties, not nineties?
But doesn't really matter because it looks very similar for what it is now. :)
With only one exception, lady Leica is on the top and it brings some satisfactory.
 
A bit odd camera mixture there, with one T90 in the pit (which places it in 86 at the earliest), but no Minolta 9000 (which already was all the rage in the year before the T90), no TTL flashes, a F3 and F2 each, many FEs and Leicas around. In a regular press pit in that year it would have been more like 70% F3, and the rest split between F1New, 9000 and T90. The crime and decadence crowd around Times Square may not have been the regular press pit crowd with their issued cameras, but a irregular lot with personal cameras, and a tight budget at that (there are more "consumer" than pro Nikons around in the picture, and back then, Leicas were cheaper than a pro SLR).
 
Right, now you say it there is one EOS - that upper Canon still looks T90ish to me. That places it even later, and makes the low number of 9000's, T90's, F3's and F4's even more strange...
 
Don't see the T90 either. But a bevy of Leicas, which surprised me. Very active in the NYC news scene in the mid 1990's, that pics is definitely earlier.

Thanks for sharing.
 
I see about 6 Vivitar 283's...love the one on the left with a white card attached by rubber-band...
I currently have 3 283's...The high voltage ones...
 
Yeah Andrew Savulich was active in the 80s and early 90s- dating it to early 90s because of the early EOS
Love the battery packs and coiled sync cords
 
Interesting to see three Leicas in the early 90s, one of them a classic even then. Wonder what's on the shoe of the M6 on the right, and what the lady's camera model in the back is (early M3 with rigid Summicron ?). It doesn't have a frame-line lever.

Roland.
 
ferider said:
Interesting to see three Leicas in the early 90s, one of them a classic even then. Wonder what's on the shoe of the M6 on the right, and what the lady's camera model in the back is (early M3 with rigid Summicron ?). It doesn't have a frame-line lever.

Roland.
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Don't forget the Nikon F2AS that should have been at least 10 years old.
 
Scrum! Been in a few of those. Vivitar's and Sunpack flash with a 510v dry cell battery pack. Subject got a sunburn every time the flash went off!

Those were the days! lol
 
Were F3Ps actually that common in the US back then? I see two in that photo- any F3/Ts?
How long before the F4s took over?
 
F3P's were coveted by the guys who knew what they were. 283's almost vertical orange and 5.6 on Tri-X, flash locked at X; this was a hold out from the 80's until the SB-24 and F4 combo took over. great shot, I too am surprised at the Leica's.
 
God, that brings back memories.

Sevo, pretty sure you're right about the T90. That was a great camera. My first "pro" slur.
 
God when I look at my Nikon manual bodies from the 80's I always think of them as being reasonably young, at least in comparison to my M2 and Rolleiflexes. Then I look at this pic and get a real feel for just how long ago that really is now.
 
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