Sport gymnastic shot on film medium camera

[jacekkoperkiewicz]

Hi all,
I am looking for images which were shot on film medium format camera. Few years ago I read article where I saw images took with film medium camera. It was shot in gymnastic hall. There are single person during exercise. It remember description it was big challenge to shot these kind of images with film medium camera to catch person without blur because of shutter speed limitation. I asked ChatGPT, google, Perpexlity... Nothing was find. Maybe some of you saw it and can share, please. I know there can be a lot of images, but maybe someone saw the same what I saw I know data are poor, but...
Thank you in advance

 

[Barney]

What was the magazine?

 

[Garry Edwards]

This probably isn't helpful, but a bit of context may explain things better.

Everyone shot everything on film when that was all we had, but nearly all of us switched to digital when it became viable - probably about 2003. 35mm was easier than MF for all sorts of reasons, including cost, but always suffered from poor image quality, so some professionals would use MF for action shots.

Shutter speed limitation would be a factor, most MF cameras would have a top shutter speed of around 1/400th, compared to maybe 1/8000th with some 35mm cameras, but the problem with all indoor shots was the low light level, combined with the very limited iso film speeds - it's no good shooting at 1/8000th when the maximum iso is 1600 and the grain with that film is terrible.

Most people use flash for indoor action shots, there's no real choice. 35mm film cameras had focal plane shutters that severely limited the shutter speed that could be used with flash, some or most MF cameras had Compur (between the lens) shutters that could be used at any shutter speed, e.g. 1/400th, which would reduce or obviate any blur from ambient light.

Negs and trannys' commissioned for books and mags would be supplied direct to the publishers, and presumably would be filed once published, but very few of these old shots have been indexed by the internet, so are very hard to find. Knowing the name of the mag may help, but only if they are still in business, and very few still are.