Has anyone shot film back from the 1960's onwards

Afternoon all
Have got to do an assignment on sports photography from the 60's through to to modern era. I have been trying to find out what equipment you would of used back then and whether you would develop in the boot of your car or whether you would have to run back to the office to develop your film to get it in the paper the next day.
I have been trying to google but its getting me nowhere so any help or links would be very helpful.

Many thanks for your help
Dex

Well...I shot a lot of film in the 70's...and depending on how quickly you needed to get your prints in, you could easily develop the film in your home/hotel, etc if you had your tank and chemicals with you. But for the most part, labs were where you would get back to at the paper/office and process it. If you were in the 'big leagues' you did your shooting and had runners running film back to process. Not sure if that is what you are getting at though.

I use to shoot HS sports back in the 80's for a small local paper, back in those days time management was so important. For example Fri football you get assigned 2 local schools, I would shoot the first quarter and then off to the second school for a quarter then back to the paper to soup up the nights take. I got to shoot a couple NFL games back then and that stadium had a darkroom for the local paper.
Not sure if you are talking about camera equipment: but back then I carried
2- Nikon F-3 with motor drive, 300 f2.8, 180 f2.8, 105 f2 and 24 f2.8
I had my own darkroom which I would use for non deadline stuff and just deliver prints to the paper.

*sniff...sniff*

I smell fixer.

and maybe hint of stopbath

Great darkroom shots^^ I used Canon F-1 with Canon glass in the late 70's early 80's. Manual focus and match needle metering were way tougher than today's auto everything digital. Once I did forget to load film for about 20 shots, whoops. I knew it was about time to reload so I checked how many shots I'd taken and realized something was amiss. Rarely shot color because that was sent off to be developed. Most was B&W. We would develop negatives strips, dry and cut, then put them in protective carriers in a 3 ring binder. You can see the protective sheets with negatives on the right side of the first photo above. See the tall cans on the right? You could develop more than one roll of film at a time. Make a quick contact print 8x10 and place that with the negatives. The editors used a grease pencil on the contact print of the desired shots and we'd print as close to that as possible. In that same picture there even is a grease pencil and viewing loupe to get a close look at the negatives. Sometimes if it was a long day, someone else would develop and print for you. I think the Beseler enlarger in the second pic is for color, which I found to be too frustrating to attempt. I'm starting to tear up just thinking about those days...

Shot transparencies (slides) and B&W film and had my own darkroom set up until I went digital back in 2002.

I shot pictures for my high school yearbook in the early 80's. For some reason I never took a picture of the darkroom....really wish I had. It was down the hall from the yearbook room and was a very nice set up...had my own key : )

Recently found my negatives and have been scanning and digitalizing them. I look at some of the pictures and wonder what I was thinking. Some actually are onto too bad : )

Man, I wish I had some photos of my bathroom dark room where I had the trays in the bath tub.
and enlarger on the floor... and my dad banging on the door to get in and use the bathroom....
LMAO... back in the late 70's.. and then in the 80's doing, b/w, color, transparencies (slides) for a lab where I worked in SC. It was a full color lab, prints up to 30x40.

The Leafax, now obsolete, was the standard for image scanning and uploading in the now-obsolete era of film and phone line modems. A Google search will generate many stories about the age of film.

Many pro stadiums had darkrooms off the press area under the stands...

There were often one per agency (UPI, AP, SI, etc...)

I cant even get my head around shooting manual for everything let alone developing as well
great thread by the way

flapsmcgee wrote in post #14041139
I cant even get my head around shooting manual for everything let alone developing as well
great thread by the way

Unless you find yourself shooting really early in the morning or really late in the afternoon, the bonus with shooting sports is that the light will remain fairly constant for the duration of the event.

You might have to add a 1/2 stop when shooting up sun or to open up faces in American football helmets but by and large, you set your exposure to maximize your shutter speed (unless you want to get artsy) and just shoot.

Same with indoor sports or night games with the big difference being you had to choose a film speed to use for an entire roll!

I shoot sport so I understand what your saying re exposure during day and night.
More focusing in manual for sports such as football

Joe300 wrote in post #14039392
Man, I wish I had some photos of my bathroom dark room

My darkroom was a portion of the large funace room in my first hourse I had all sectioned off. Didn't ever take a pic of it either.

Little kids' sports (beehive soccer, t-ball) mostly people, always B&W.

Don't think that's what you're looking for.

Fun to reminisce.

I have been shooting since 1956. I can remember the anticipation of waiting for the film to be processed from a local pharmacy. It use to take from 5-7 days to get my photos. Having to save the long roll of negatives.
Manual focus,manual exposure with an exposure meter and using flashbulbs and calculating on a dial the f. stop you needed. ISO - called ASA then , the ultimate then was KODAK 400.Most often used was PanX 80
I remember getting one of the first SLR camera's available it was a Heiland Pentax in 1960.
Having shot Wilt Chamberlain from the floor of Madison Square Garden in his first year.