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Recently at the Camera Electronic Photo Live 2018 Friday night special event - the boxing spectacular - someone used their imagination in a rather dramatic fashion. Of course they had access to some of the most imaginative equipment in the business, as well, but let's remember that the buttons and the lenses only do what someone tells them to do.
You've probably all seen historic boxing photos that have been taken from a vantage point up above the ring. In the old film days they would suspend a motorised 35mm camera with a wide-angle lens up there fixing its focus on the canvas. They might have been able to rig a flash on the camera or at least wire-synch it to other strobe lights up in the gantry that hangs over the ring. It was a complex rigging job and somewhat uncertain...Would it fire? Would the light cover properly? Would there be enough film in the camera to record some spectacular part of the action. Would the camera stay in focus once it was up there in place? For big fights they might have had to rig it, run test shots, get them processed, then re rig it repeatedly until they were satisfied.
Hello digital and Hello Nikon. And also Hello Michael Philips - this state's expert in Nikon. And he had a plan. The Novotel Langley was probably not going to be pleased with a gantry bolted to their ceiling, but they could hardly object to a big old boom arm on a studio stand and one of the modern Nikon digital cameras attached to it.
Lighting? Flash bulbs? Not these days, Champ. Nikon cameras are noted for their ability to function with very high ISO numbers and the Nikon system of connectivity between the camera and the mobile phone meant that Michael could see what the camera saw and take the shot when it was best framed - not doing what I do and just watching the action over the top of something and firing in hope.
The heading image is the result - everything that a reporter or boxing fan could want. Once again Michael's imagination and Nikon's vision score points.
