One set of photo gear for the olympics

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One set of photo gear for the olympics

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Getty Images is a stock photo supplier. They buy photos and sometimes give photographers assignments. Here is the Team Getty's photo gear for the winter olympics.
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Can you match this list with the photo?
20 Canon 1Dx cameras
3 Canon 5DmkIII cameras
1 Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro lens
2 Canon 14mm fisheye lenses
2 Canon 15mm fisheye lenses
5 Canon 16-35mm zoom lenses
7 Canon 200-400mm zoom lenses
2 Canon 200mm f/1.8 lenses
2 Canon 300mm f/2.8 lenses
2 Canon 300mm f/4 lenses
2 Canon 35mm f/1.4 lenses
2 Canon 50mm f/1.2 lenses
2 Canon 400mm f/2.8 lenses
8 Canon 500mm f/4 lenses
10 Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 lenses
7 Canon 8-15mm fisheye lenses
5 Canon 800mm f/5.6 lenses
2 Canon 85mm f/1.2 lenses
And a set of Tilt Shift lenses

The article didn't say how many photographers will be using gear from this pile. It did say the pile was worth 315,000 Euros.
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Were the Tilt Shift lenses supplied by Canon by any chance? :D
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Bristolian wrote:Were the Tilt Shift lenses supplied by Canon by any chance? :D
Rumors are Team Getty went with the best: http://lensbaby.com/lenses-spark :D
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I don't know the exact model but there's a high end photography shop here in Luxembourg and they have one of those large Canon telephoto lenses in the window for just under 12,000 euros.
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Stop teasingg us with all the porn, Homer, it's obscene. I'm drooling here!
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J.J.B. wrote:Stop teasingg us with all the porn, Homer, it's obscene. I'm drooling here!
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I passed by the mentioned photo shop this morning and it was the 200-400mm zoom that costs an eye-watering 11,995 Euros. If you're on a budget, they also have a fixed 400mm for 9,995 Euro!
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More about photo agencies covering the Olympics

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Getty Images and Reuters say their photogs will shoot 1,000,000* images during the event. That's per agency, not combined. Story about how their setup gets images from the camera to the agencies web sites: http://gizmodo.com/the-inside-story-of- ... 1521746623

* How is that possible? Easy. It takes each photog shooting less than 2 minutes a day for their combined efforts to produce 1 million images. Olympics is 17 days, Getty has 37 photographers who're usually shooting 14 frames per second, so:
# images / # days / # photogs / 14 = time per photog per day
1,000,000 / 17 / 37 / 14 = 113 seconds.
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How agencies get photos from events to their websites

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I misposted this, so here it is again, unburied

Getty Images and Reuters say their photogs will shoot 1,000,000* images during the event. That's per agency, not combined. Story about how their setup gets images from the camera to the agencies web sites: http://gizmodo.com/the-inside-story-of- ... 1521746623

* How is that possible? Easy. It takes each photog shooting less than 2 minutes a day for their combined efforts to produce 1 million images. Olympics is 17 days, Getty has 37 photographers who're usually shooting 14 frames per second, so:
# images / # days / # photogs / 14 = time per photog per day
1,000,000 / 17 / 37 / 14 = 113 seconds.
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