August 19th, 2008 in Camera by Uncle Sha
The photo above of the Olympic photographers is indeed a $250,000 thousand in the making as each photographer is equipped with at least $20,000 worth of equipment brought along by them. So the breakdown is
Total Cost: Around $250,000
- 23 cameras in above photo
- Canon L-Series EF and Nikkor AF-S 500mm super telephoto lenses
- Each around $5,800
- A few 400mm, 600mm, 700mm, 800mm
- Average of $6,000 per telephoto lense
- That’s $138,000 total just on lenses
- Canon and Nikon cameras
- Average $5,000 price tag per camera
- Grand total to about a quarter of a million dollars.
- 1,100 accredited photographers at the Beijing Olympics
- A good low-estimate per photographer would be $20,000 minimum
- Grand total to $22 million in professional digital photography equipment at the Olympics
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