How’s that work with so few PW channels.

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Wow! What else is there to say? Gives lens envy a whole new meaning.

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Vincent, one question.
How do they (you) do to expose manually at 5.30am (and therefore guess what will be the lighting conditions at 10pm) to set up their remotes ???

is there a trick or what ?

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Great video and great posts! You have some amazing work.

Recently, in photography forums all over, there seems to be discussions regarding Canon camera’s in the professional line seem to be diminishing. From what we see on T.V. more and more Nikon gear is popping up in sports events.

From your recent trip to the Olympics, do you see that this is the case? Is Nikon starting to over populate more than the white lenses?

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[...] sports photographer Vincent Laforet, a video showing the crazy amount of camera gear that was set up to capture the finish in the Men’s 100M final race. Holy cripes that’s [...]

I second what Sylvain is saying. Unless these cameras are set up in Av or tv mode. but i thought that everything was done manually…

so in the shot of the 100m’s with TS, would you have shot that in AV mode ?

Thanks

Chris

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Exposure would be easy, it’s under floodlighting, you’ve had a few night’s to suss it, and just make an allowance that all the gus are black. Mike.

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Wow, that’s nuts. As much as I love my G9 (and I do love it dearly) all these big cameras give me a massive amount of camera envy.

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Very nice video. I have written some things about photography in italian, and I will publish them very soon, with many videos I took with my IXUS 960 since last january. I think videos about photography are very interesting for everybody. Thank you Vincent!

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I hope you get around to a “how-to” remotes article for your blog. If not in a venue with other photographers, can one use PW Plus units (which I’ve only used to trigger strobes) for remote work, or does the MultiMAX have functionality (beyond channels) that makes remotes possible?

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Wow! I did think the custom PW channels was a bit excessive when you were showing your equipment before you left… but now I see the obviousness of that choice. Cool video.

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Wow… That’s pretty cool. It would have been so exciting to be part of something like this. I guess weddings aren’t as fun as the Olympics

Andrew

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Cool video and nice gear. But I think it’s crazy with all the photographers at the Olympics. Why do we need 10- thousands of pictures? Some one got to pay for all this…guess who?

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Someone previously mentioned “why do we need 10,000 pictures?”

It’s a question I’ve been thinking about ever since you posted about the Olympics. There really are hundreds of photographers covering the same thing. Of course, they’re all hired by different companies and their photographs are not going to the same place. Is there any worry in the photography industry that one day this will change and there will be a very limited number of photographers and then the companies will receive their photographs from this big pot?… As opposed to sending their own photographer intended to capture what’s needed for their publication’s specific style. Effectively that would dismantle the industry so it’s probably just a “what if…” kind of question. However, that questions also assumes that photography editors and those in charge of such large events become bogged down by the awkward notion that all photographs are created equal, and if they cover the event then that’s good enough. I don’t think enough people buy into the idea of creative freedom and the ability for a photographer to capture something in a unique way (e.g. the idea that even if there are a thousand photographers photographing the same thing, there is still the opportunity for something special). I’m probably typing myself into a circle.

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Great post and great video as usual.

In my dreams would I own some of those lenses, Vincent I know you took a few camera bodies with you, may I ask, do you and other togs own all of these bodies, lenses etc or are they hired in as required?

Kindest regards
NIGEL (U.K.)

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Un milione in fotocamere per 10 secondi…

Durante i giochi olimpici appena conclusi si sono svolte moltissime gare e probabilmente avrete visto spuntare fotografi con il loro equipaggiamento un po’ dovunque.
Per la finale dei 100 metri maschili, da sempre la gara più attesa delle …

Remote Heaven or Hell depending on the Results - Olympic 100m final…

A quick video of the still camera remotes at the Beijing Olympics. Amazing stuff - up to 100 remote cameras, al focused on the finishing line of the men’s 100m final….

AWESOME

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[...] My friend Vincent had a related posting yesterday - “Remote Heaven or Hell Depending On The Results” - it features a little video that he shot - of the set up of remotes at finish line of the 100M Final in Beijing - as well as lots of good information in his writing. Good stuff!! here [...]

[...] close to 100 remote cameras set up, all focused on the same thing: the finish line. Photographer Vincent Laforet was there, and he made this amazing video showing the sheer insanity of hundreds of thousands of [...]

[...] Vincent Laforet shot a video of the remote camera setups at the Beijing Olympics for the mens 100m final. Its amazing to see that ammount of equipment just siting there. [...]

Wow, that G9 is sweet. I gotta pick one up. Thanks for this cool video.

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Hi Vincent - Great post and video clip! I was at that event too and was marveling at all of the remote equipment. Could you tell us how many frames you captured and your exposure info for the finish of the race?

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Wow! I’ve never seen something like this.

So - once this is all set do you simply press the shutter continuosly during the 10 seconds or so and buffer all the shots?

Thanks for sharing this highlight!

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Wow. Just wow. Been working on a commercial project and have missed your blog for a week.

What’s that song BTW?

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this video makes you want to grab a tissue…
what’s the song? great stuff!

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I was fascinated with what I can only refer to as those squat-pods….those short things the cameras in the grass are standing on. At one point the video gets in temptingly close to the wording on the pod….which is really a flat plate to which the short length of ballhead is screwed into, but I couldn’t make out the name on it. I’d never seen this before, and obviously all the guys have ‘em. Googling didn’t come up with what I see here. Do tell, please.

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Sonia…here’s what you’re looking for:

http://overxposed.com/products.html

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Firefox is block-listing this version 7.1.* of Quick Time on Windows (It’s old, unsupported, has vulnerabilities and crashes the browser)

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[...] Remote Heaven or Hell Video from the Olympics showing approx 100 cameras setup remotely for 100M final. Some of these guys were there at 5am ready for a 10:30pm race Vincent Laforet’s Blog [...]

With all those expensive cameras and lenses what kind of security was present?

Also what horror stories did you hear from other photographers re: airline handling of gear and what it was like getting thru airport customs in China.

Thanks.

Terry Thomas…
the photographer
Atlanta, Georgia USA
http://www.TerryThomasPhotos.com

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Impressive!

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wow, that is crazy!

Wish you got a video of them all blasting away thou.

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Wow that’s cool, crazy, and looks like fun! The custom channels makes sense, otherwise you could do a 20mp final at 30fps with all those Mk3s.

Maybe I’ll be there someday….

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I shot a lot of theatre and opera, I wanted to try the WT-4 nikon wireless mounted from one of the fly bars. I want to transmit to my Powerbook. My problem is that I have to set up 10.5 hours earlier in the morning and not have access to the gear until after the opera. I might not be able to get ac power. Do you know of any additional power supplies or does Canon ( or nikon) offer other solutions. I dont want the batter to die nor do I want it to go to sleep ( I haven’t used them so Im not sure what happens after 10 hours). Thanks… love your work

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