Athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympics take care of the results and professional photographers capture the most important moments of the Olympic Games. Getty Images, the world's largest provider of digital photographic material, also has a large army of photographers in Rio, which ensures that the media always have the best shots available in record time. The process from the moment of capturing the photo to the processed photo ready for publication takes only 120 seconds!
Getty Images, the largest online image service, allows you to use your images taken on OI Rio 2016, in record time! In a race against time, it is not only athletes, but also photographers. Incredible speed, which can be placed alongside the fastest pit stops in Formula 1, except that this is not about the process of changing tires and touching fuel, but about taking pictures.
Photographers use to send photos Ethernet connection cable, who sends to the "General Staff" to 10 frames per second. There, the editors select, trim or otherwise process them and publish them. If all goes according to luck, she is sent out into the world in less than 120 seconds! A lot has been invested to achieve this incredible time seven years of preparation!
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In Rio, photographers from Getty Images will shoot around 1.5 million photos, which is approx. 83,333 per day! Of these 1.5 million, approx. will be selected and sent to the photo bank. 85 thousand. And what "weapons" do their photographers use? Everyone is armed with a 360-degree camera, four DSLR cameras, 16-35mm f/2.8, 24-70mm f/2.8, A 70-200mm f/2.8 and 300mm f/2.8 lenses and an additional telephoto lens (400mm, 500mm or 600mm), 2 flashes, laptop and clothing. Each photographer's equipment is collectively worth 42,289 US dollars!
