Times photo staffer's invention: the streaming backpack | Capital New York

Times photo staffer's invention: the streaming backpack | Capital New York: Back during the 2012 presidential campaign, New York Times photographer Josh Haner was right at the scrum, trailing presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan with occasional stints covering Joe Biden alongside a mob of reporters from television, print and digital news services.

The still photographers, he concluded, were at a clear disadvantage.

As the TV journalists were constantly fed a stream of live footage to their headquarters, Haner had to scramble to upload the images he shot, add all the caption information, and enter it remotely into the Times' digital content management system, often with moments to spare before the next event or before his plane reached an altitude where he couldn’t transmit the images wirelessly anymore.