Category: Technology
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George Haines and Fred Schmidt on the Butterfly
At the 1961 AAU National Swimming and Diving Championships, George Haines describes the butterfly technique to Bud Palmer while high school sensation Fred Schmidt demonstrates. Fred won gold at the 1964 Olympic Game, later became a Navy Seal and helped recover several Apollo space crafts on their return from the moon.
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Inside Tracker, a service used by Olympians to improve internal health (and thereby performance)
To help prepare for track meets, competitive 5K races and especially the Olympics, Boston-based runner Ruben Sanca runs 116 miles per week, takes vitamins and mostly watches his diet. But he would still feel fatigued after training runs. Then a blood analysis and a special software program revealed his internal chemistry needed some adjusting. Read…
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Behold the amazing Twinscam used to show synchronized swimming at London 2012
Synchronized swimming has never looked so good thanks to the Twinscam, invented by Japanese broadcaster NHK in 2010, simultaneously showing swimmer’s torsos above water and their legs below it. A solution to a common problem in water events, that because of the way light refracts and reflects differently above and below water, heavy image processing…
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Awesome video as GoPro camera takes a swim with dolphins
According to comments on his Vimeo page, tuna fisherman Mark Peters said a GoPro Hero 2 camera with a flat lens and dive housing had been used to capture the footage. He added that a “torpedo” housing that he had constructed helped the camera to remain steady underwater. Read The Huffington Post and MercuryNews The…
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Team Reuters on Photographing the Olympics
Here’s a video that offers a peek into the life of a Reuters photographer covering the Olympics. It features photographers and editors on the Reuters team talking about the joys and challenges of shooting the biggest sporting event in the world. Via PetaPixel
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OMEGA – A Journey With Time
One of the challenges facing OMEGA at each edition of the Olympic Games is the transport of some 400 tons of equipment from Switzerland to the host city. This video, with narration by OMEGA Timing Board Member Peter Hürzeler, follows the timekeeping devices and dedicated scoreboards as they are moved by road, rail and sea…
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GoPro HERO 2 with Boompole and BlurFix Flat Lens Housing demo
Olivia is by far my favorite photo tech geek, here blogging about how you can get pretty shots by using the GoPro Hero 2 with a simple Boompole to achive jib style shots with steady camera movements on a tight budget. Demo video is off that blog post, sorry, didn’t have time to find another.
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