Sunday, 9 August 2015

medium format - Help identifying a camera during the London Olympics games 2012


During the final competition of the individual all-around gymnastics (won by Gabby Douglas) I noticed a photographer (if memory doesn't fail me, he was placed behind the russian team) with a very large and "strange looking" camera.


Did anybody else see him? What camera was it? Was it simply a large format? Was it an old bellows camera? From what I cannot remember it did seem relatively old but maybe large or medium format camera are like that and I simply cannot recognize one :-)


I have searched on youtube but obviously all the focus is on the performances of the athletes and not on all the great camera gear that was floating around the venues, can you believe that? ;-)


P.S.: the reference to old bellows camera is of course related to this other question of mine.



Answer



I think you are talking about the 4x5 Graflex Speed Graphic that David Burnett was shooting with.


http://www.lomography.com/magazine/lifestyle/2012/08/09/david-burnett-an-analogue-view-of-the-olympics



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