Is your gear cut out for the Olympics?

[MNFats]

Hey everyone,

I just read this article over at Pocket-Lint.com, that I thought was very interesting. It talks about the photographers that Getty Images sent out to the Olympics in Vancouver. Great read, but the thing that blew me away was the total price of the gear that they have with them.

As for the kind of kit you'll need for the job, well, typically, Getty Images supplies its men with 2 x Nikon D3s DSLRs, a 24-70mm lens, a 400mm lens, a 500/600mm lens, a 1.4x teleconverter just to make sure, a tonne of spare batteries and a deck full of memory cards.

I totaled this all up adding 10 bateries and 10 high quality memory cards and I came up with $33,084.00 and that isn't even including tax!

Great read though... just thought I would share

Megapixel men of the mountain - The Winter Olympics and the lengths photographers go to shoot it

Sounds about right for that kind of work.

[LoveDSLR]

Check this out too:

Canon CPS lens room at the Olympics

[PowerPix]

Originally Posted by LoveDSLR

Check this out too:

Canon CPS lens room at the Olympics

Not bad....I'd take a few of those lenses.

[cphoniball]

I'm surprised that's all...

Ever seen this?

[MNFats]

Originally Posted by LoveDSLR

Check this out too:

Canon CPS lens room at the Olympics

HOLY CATS! That is insane!

Thanks for sharing that link... I need to go put my eyeballs back in their sockets now.

[MNFats]

Originally Posted by cphoniball

I'm surprised that's all...

Ever seen this?

That's just nuts! Thanks for sharing it!

[OsmosisStudios]

You guys can keep your white lenses...

A Busy Start...

[WooD]

Originally Posted by OsmosisStudios

You guys can keep your white lenses...

A Busy Start...

Nikon has a nice set up too.

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[Jim Bryant]

Yup, you need gear such as that. I have 13 batteries............never know when there's no juice around to recharge them. Especially shooting in the cold drains the batteries rather quickly.

Originally Posted by OsmosisStudios
You guys can keep your white lenses...

From Jim -------- Nikon lenses are make from discarded beer bottle glass. Why do you think there's a reason why you see so many "White" lenses are major games.