Sports Negatives

[justinanika]

Watched the most recent episode of Dragons Den the other night, and there was a guy from BC pitching his business of selling Sports Photograph Negatives.

He got a deal and I checked out his Ebay store some pretty cool photo negatives, and his prices seem decent.

Anyone ever add this sort of odd ball item to their collection?

http://stores.ebay.ca/Vintage-Sports-Images
http://www.vintagesportsimages.com/

 

[jetsman]

None in sports but when Cider House Rules came out the theatre company sent out slides as part of their promo package. I was working at my campus newspaper at the time and I got to take the kit home.

 

[Ironman Indy]

Nice photos. Good to see photos you haven't seen before.

But I believe he doesn't know the difference between BW photo and negative.

I didn't see any actual negatives. I think he means slides or transparencies.

 

[DougLaurieSports]

I have purchased from langdaledog in the past, and he's a good eBayer. However, purchasing these slides doesn't necessarily give the buyer the right to make copies of the photos. The copyright (unless langdaledog owns all the rights, and he says nothing about that in his eBay auctions) still belongs to the original photographer.

I have purchased slides from phtotgraphers for card companies and with those purchases, I received rights. I OWN the picture and can do with it as I see fit.

 

[jetsman]

I have purchased from langdaledog in the past, and he's a good eBayer. However, purchasing these slides doesn't necessarily give the buyer the right to make copies of the photos. The copyright (unless langdaledog owns all the rights, and he says nothing about that in his eBay auctions) still belongs to the original photographer.

I have purchased slides from phtotgraphers for card companies and with those purchases, I received rights. I OWN the picture and can do with it as I see fit.

Not necessarily. The NHL and the PA/player retain licensing rights.

And in fact, a photographer re-selling their pic is essentially breaking the agreement they hold with the club or league they were licensed to shoot images of.

When i've shot, for example, at WWE events, I had to sign a waiver that any photos I took were only going to be used for SLAM! Wrestling. I couldnt, say, sell prints on eBay or the rights to one of the mags.

Now I don't know how strict the NHL or its clubs and players were back in the day, but I'm guessing that, given the age, they tend not to care; but if it was a shot in the post-lockout era, they'd be very tight.

 

[bonnev659]

some nice Whaler photos but i think it is just black and white photos unless i don't know what negatives look like, for the teams i looked after