What, no bullet-time camera set-ups?!?!?!?!?

They should of put a little arch near/at the finish line and make bullet-time captures! Seeing Usain Bolt in bullet-time at the end of his 100m race would have been awesome!

nXt

i've seen this before in the camera section at Best Buy!

hindsight2020

The clicking would have been more annoying than all the grandfather clocks in a clock store going off at noon. If there hadn't been 90k people screaming at the top of their lungs...

Oh yeah, one other thing... Anyone see my camera? I left it lying around here somewhere...

FЯeeMan

Makes we wonder if any of those pocketwizards have channel conflicts.

spaceman37

CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK!

hahaha!

siville

@cerebrus: They elected one dude to trigger all of them at once on the same frequency.
It was an arduous process with many tests involving timing and hand-eye coordination.

Phenostar

@mciarlo: I dont think that will produce better images than what we see above.

pdditty

100 Remotely-Controlled "Cameras" All Gunning to Capture the Same Moment.

I think the Chinese may have rigged the games.

Rabid Penguin

Wonder how they do not loose track of their own cameras. Also, with all those wireless triggers, how do they prevent any overlap of signal?

cerebrus

Hundreds of thousands or even millions in photography equipment...
C'mon guys, that's what PHOTOSHOP is for! No need for all that!
Or even, videoshop:
[xspblog.com]

This has been the fake stuff Olympics anyways!
But yeah, even Brazil took lots of high end equipment there (though Brazil ended up having very very poor results). Lots of high def slow-mo cams...

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@nXt: that is a brilliant idea, actually. And with those ridiculous zoom lenses they had, the cameras could actually have been quite a distance away and completely automated. Can you imagine everyone's astonishment when NBC aired that footage without any warning? A whole nation yells "Holy shit!" in unison. LOL

Sean Robertson

If I'm going to spend that much effort on a picture, I'd totally just grab the most expensive high-def video camera and grab the frames from it that I liked best. I'd have every awesome picture possible from the event and I'd get to pick and choose the ones I wanted.

mciarlo

Who's watching the watchers?

(bonus Geek points if you can name the TV series that contained an episode of that title and the episode's basic plot line without looking it up).

Sean Robertson

Wow, that looks like tons of work and yes the clicking must have been sooo annoying lol. Great results though.

RE-L

They should put all those photos into Photosynth.

Tony Bullard

I wonder how they choose which person gets to kill the individual that bumps the rail that so many of the cameras are secured on...
I bet they make sure the battery has a full charge so that the camera can sit there for 4 hours before the race without running low!

freelunch

"Guys, come on... not cool. For real, has anyone seen my camera? It was the black one w/ duct tape"

Hiphopopotamus

@nXt: photosynth?

The Chad

@Sean Robertson: JLA:Unlimited? All I remember is that Green Lantern was really a lefty in that episode.

Git Em SteveDave is starlost

@spaceman37: I'd imagine that they're possibly set to the same channel and someone has the task of setting them off. I think the maximum channels a PocketWizard can utilise is 32?

vee-media

@vee-media:

someone could have made a killing selling slots for pocket wizards

discounteggroll

It's true. The guys who get paid to shoot don't get paid to be creative.

heroineworshipper

Anyone know the music used in this video? Or where I might find it?

Greenhippo33

Click click boom

ichi1

@Sean Robertson:
The correct phrase (in this instance) is "Who Watches the Watchers". The series is ST:TNG, and the plot summary is this.

@Git Em SteveDave is starlost:
Just watched that episode, but it's called "Divided We Fall" (1st volume of JLU), and Green Arrow translates it as "Who guards the guardians". The concept apparently hails back to Plato's Republic, but the actual Latin phrase that Batman uses comes from the Roman satirist Juvenal ~400-500 years later.

Purple Dave

freelunch: I bet they make sure the battery has a full charge so that the camera can sit there for 4 hours before the race without running low!

I don't know about their cameras, but I have a 20d. It goes into sleep mode when not being actively used, but wakes up in a fraction of a second when the shutter is pressed. I can take 800 photos before the battery meter goes down a notch, so you can imagine how little power gets used when the camera is just sitting there in sleep mode.

/the battery packs on modern DSLRs last quite a while if you're not using the built in flash and not constantly messing with the screen/focus. People can capture exposures that are 8+ hours long (star trails).

/also notice how there aren't any flash units active there. They're basically useless at the distances they're shooting at. I always snicker when you see regular folks up in the stadium seats taking pictures with flash.

lordargent

Would have been funny if just one of those cameras was a Hello Kitty or Spongebob camera on a tripod.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

@Purple Dave: Damn, I should have known that one. I had to do a paper on it in my one Star Trek course at college(not kidding). I liked that one. When Picard had the girl in the conference room, it was a good scene.

@BiZarRroBALlmeR: For the olympics, only one camera can handle it. They say it can take a picture even with the lens cap closed.

Git Em SteveDave is starlost

@Git Em SteveDave is starlost:
I just did an Episode search on IMDB for "Watchers" or somesuch, once I determined that the recently viewed JLU ep could _NOT_ have been called that.

Purple Dave

Any one know the name of the track playing in the background?

orphic1

@heroineworshipper:

"It's true. The guys who get paid to shoot don't get paid to be creative. "

WHAT!? I suggest you have a look at some of the shots taken by Vincent Laforet during the olympics and then have another think about your creative comment. One of the big plus points about setting up a remote is that you can put it up high above the action, down low shooting up at the action, set up a couple of cameras with slower shutters, narrow depth of field, or in the case of Vincent a couple of tilt shift rigs. Then you can get your award winning 'creative' shots as well as getting your front page 'money' shots.

@lordargent:
Flash photography by the pro's covering the event is banned by the olympics, you could imagine 100+ remote flashed lines up at the finish all going off at once and blinding the runners (or worse javelin throwers...)

@spaceman37:

The pocket wizards are sent back to the manufacturer who gives then a custom frequency to prevent other photogs from triggering your set up.

Andyv1.2

Seems like it would take the fun out of photography to me… but don't get me wrong that is an amazing sight.

RockNRollBeaver