Reuters Develops Robo Cams For Olympics

(Reuters)

Over on Reuters' blog, Brian Drourr found this post and passed it along. It is a story of how Reuters is employing new technology to bring about cool shots from interesting angles, and publishing it to the world in mere minutes.

The complex system involves cameras mounted from extreme elevated or extreme low angles, and triggered remotely via cables or transmitters.

(Reuters)

Copied from the blog...

"Reuters photographer Pawel Kopczynski and I have been developing since the 2009 athletics World Championships in Berlin a new technology, which enables Reuters sports photography to shoot pictures from unusual angles and make them available to our customers around the world in minutes. We tested the technology at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea and at the world indoor athletics championships in Istanbul.


The robotic camera can be released by a photographer over wireless transmitters or externally triggered by a cable. All images are directly transferred into our Paneikon remote editing system and from there can be transmitted on the wire."


You can read the full post here. Thanks Brian!