Originally posted by victormeldrew Before those things, people had no source for seeing the images until the next day at the very earliest, which makes things a bit more relaxed ...
Actually, if you go to 9:06 the guy is saying that 30 years ago (analogue age) they took 40 minutes to get an image out. Depending on different time zones etc., that's quick enough to get it into the evening editions of newspapers, so you may well see an image from a morning race the same evening.
Originally posted by E-man Wow! Maybe photography should become an olympic event.
I actually think that it would be cool to have a separate prize/medals for the best images of the Olympics. They often do become iconic, and it would be great to see photographers honoured that way.
Originally posted by altopiet Definitely no time to struggle with slow auto focus issues...
Yeah, I am pretty sure no Pentax will give you a shot like 6:01, except through luck. You can prefocus on a bit of the railing and then let the fps do the job, but at that depth of field you will probably only get one frame in perfect focus, and if the facial expression isn't right in that one, you've got a problem. And it's not like the events are repeated and you get another shot ...