04-26-2016, 04:49 AM
Photography of the era consisted of cameras not conducive to the unlimited amount of photos todays photojournalists are capable of. My best guess is the Graphflex or similar which meant a game had 6 exposures on 3 cartridges from it. Perhaps photographers did not feel like using 1/6th of their images on a non-action image. I had a colleague complain to me how lucky I was to have 36 shots per roll of film when I was a rookie photojournalist. He said, "I had 6 shots per sporting event kid, don't tell me you didn't get one good shot from 6 rolls of 36 exposure film."
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