Which Image Best Represents My New Book?

The graphics director at my publisher, Stephanie Bridges-Bledsoe, and I are working hard on an appropriate cover for my new novel, NEWS!, which will be on book store shelves next summer. 

It is unusual for a book publisher to allow the author to have any say at all on the graphics involved, but my publisher, Propertius Press, not only allows my opinion, but encourages. Still, we have a dilemma.

The first image (above) is the one I really like because it is big, bold and makes a statement. But it is historically inaccurate. The camera is a Speed Graphic, which by the time the book is set (1969), has become replaced by the Nikon F1 as the newspaper photographer's standard. (The typewriter is precisely accurate, although it was made in 1917. In the book, the newest staffer gets the oldest typewriter in the building, which happens to be an ancient Royal, weighing 45 pounds.) 

I went looking for an F1 yesterday and wound up at Photo USA, which has a collection of cameras behind glass in its showroom. My buddy, Daaave (his spelling, not mine) Summers, found an old Nikon--late 1960s, I'd guess--and gave me permission to borrow it for a day. I photographed it with the typewriter, reporter's pad and my lovely Cross pen, a reporter's tools of the trade. Here's what it looks like:

For my money, the Speed Graphic is much better for the image, but the Nikon is very close to being historically accurate. Steph is going to make the ultimate decision on which gets used, but I'd like your opinion. 

The book centers around a young newspaper reporter breaking into the news department (from sports) at a time when both journalism and the world are at key points in their evolution.

What is your opinion? I will share it with Steph.