Getty Images Preps Latest Tech For rio 2016
Getty Images, a world leader in visual communication, has unveiled its latest innovative technology that will capture the biggest moments at the upcoming Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
A team of over 120 people will be on the ground, in the pool, at sea and in the air to shoot over 1.5 million images in Rio, of which over 85,000 will be distributed worldwide.
A gigapixel specialist will be on hand to shoot key venues and moments as 360° panoramas, while all Getty Images photographers will be armed with 360 cameras. Overhead and underwater robotic cameras will capture coverage daily at ten athletics, gymnastics and aquatics venues.
Getty Images will also be leveraging 62 miles of fiber optic cable onsite that will link the photographers from within all 32 venues back to Getty Images editors based in the Main Olympic Press Centre. This enables a picture to be transferred from the field of play to the dedicated site www.gettyimages.com/olympics in as little as 120 seconds.
“We anticipate 2016 to be the most visual Olympic Games yet as we bring our photographic excellence to capture the beauty of Rio and the intensity and excitement of this world-class sporting event. Our photographers’ original perspective on sports, gained through years of specialist sports photography experience, will ensure Getty Images captures the best and most unique Olympic moments as they happen,” said Ken Mainardis, Vice President, Sports Imagery and Services, Getty Images.
Getty Images has had an official partnership with the IOC that has spanned seven Winter Olympic Games and seven Summer Olympic Games, with additional coverage since 1968.
More than a century of Olympic and Paralympic imagery can be viewed on Getty Images’ dedicated Olympic website gettyimages.com/Olympics.
