A veteran member of the International Olympic Committee revealed to the press Monday that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will definitely be postponed, likely until 2021, due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The breaking news comes from USA Today who spoke with veteran IOC member Dick Pound from Canada. Pound jumped the gun on the official […]. petapixel.com
PetaPixel has learned that the CP+ 2020 expo in Japan—one of the largest photo industry trade shows in the world—has been cancelled due to fears over the recent coronavirus outbreak. An official announcement from the show is expected shortly. petapixel.com »
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“The Sony Alpha 1 is like driving a Formula 1 racecar,” says photographer Nick Didlick. “Give the race car too much gas going into a corner and you’re going to spin out of control.
Canon claims that a majority share of press cameras at the Olympics were its mirrorless and DSLRs, claiming its 1DX Mark III, R5, and R6 were “widely used.” While Canon, Nikon, and Sony as companies were all present at the Tokyo Olympics in support of photographers, the company has said that it achieved the top […]
The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo are well underway and despite changes that had to be made because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canon — like Nikon — has set up a fully-staffed Olympic camera repair and loan facility that is home to a massive arsenal of cameras and lenses. Riki Kakizaki, one of Canon’s Global Sports […]
China is publicly slamming Reuters for publishing an “ugly” photo of female Chinese Olympic weightlifting gold medalist Zhihui Hou. After the 24-year-old Hou won the women’s 49-kilogram event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Saturday, the international news agency covered the win in an article that featured a lead photo by Mexican Reuters photographer Edgard […]
The Tokyo Olympics are officially underway after the opening ceremonies were held in a largely empty stadium. But the restrictions that have been put in place due to the pandemic didn’t stop the ceremony from presenting a particularly impressive aerial drone display.
Canon has announced that it has established a full professional photo service center inside the Tokyo 2020 main press center to support Olympics photographers despite the complications with how this would affect contact tracing.
The 2020 Olympics is set to officially begin on July 23, 2021 and while the Olympic committee is forging ahead with the event, photographers are being saddled with challenges that will make documenting it harder than ever before.