I saw this photo taken of photographers covering the Olympics in Beijing and was totally amazed!.
The caption broke it down...
In this image alone I can count 23 cameras. I can see loads of Canon L-Series EF and Nikkor AF-S 500mm super telephoto lenses—each around $5,800 a pop—, a few 400mm, 600mm, 700mm, 800mm here and there. Let's assume a conservative average of $6,000 per telephoto lens. That's $138,000 total just on lenses. Most of them are probably using the biggest and baddest Canon and Nikon cameras, so we can assume an average $5,000 price tag per camera, which brings the grand total to about a quarter of a million dollars.
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A waste of resources? Or really cool?
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Was it one of the best covered Olympics by far (okay that's just my opinion) because of these resources?
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I read a press photog's blog showing him packing his equipment before he set off to the games...he had 5 1ds bodies, and another Canon dSLR body, a couple of Peli cases and rucksacks full of lenses and a load of other gear including laptops and such...
He got up late on the first day and missed everything.... Can you imagine???
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Over a quarter of a million dollars in digital photography equipment firing at full speed! Just imagining the shutters clicking away gives me goosebumps!
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I think, very cool!!!
2 comments:
I would love to have one of those, but I don't think it will happen until cows fly!
The cameras sound impressive but I can't imagine the image giving me more joy than I get from yours. You go girl! It's really about the eye behind the camera. I love seeing what you see.
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