Olympic photographer to use Panasonic G5

Panasonic has introduced that a Getty photographer will be shooting solely with its new Panasonic G5 digital camera for the duration of the Olympics.

Dean Mouharopoulous has been granted accessibility to the complete London 2012 Olympic Game titles as portion of his get the job done for Getty, which he has worked with for 9 decades.

Getty is the official photographic company of the IOC, though Dean has photographed many significant scale sporting occasions these kinds of as Soccer and Rugby Earth Cups, the Olympics, Champions League football and Planet Championships in a assortment of sports.

The Panasonic G5 was declared past week and is the most up-to-date digital camera to be additional to the Lumix G range of cameras.

It characteristics a 16 million pixel Reside MOS sensor, a Venus Engine VII and an ISO assortment of up to 12,800.

Unusual strategy

Talking to TechRadar, Dean explained that he was hunting ahead to the problem. A compact program camera may possibly not be the natural decision for a sports activities photographer, but he likes the G5, and is wanting ahead to the problem of utilizing it in a large - strain surroundings.

He will not likely be fighting for a place to shoot Usain Bolt as he noise the finishing line however, as 'there's no stage in finding the very same shot as everybody else'. Instead he will be wanting for considerably less extensively documented parts of the online games and shooting from much more strange and appealing angles.

Lens selection

Dean will also be outfitted with a selection of Panasonic G series lenses, like the not too long ago introduced twelve -35mm f/ 2. 8 X lens. A selection of focal lengths from 7mm - 300mm (35mm equal 14mm-600mm) will be obtainable to Dean throughout the games.

Images taken with the G5 by Dean will be showcased at the London 2012 Olympic Video games Pictures Gallery at the Getty Gallery based in Westfield Searching Centre in Stratford.

Panasonic will also be posting Lumix G Photographs of the Day on Panasonic's homepage all through the game titles.

Update: the following are some of the initially images taken on Panasonic Lumix G cameras by Getty pictures photographer Dean Mouhtaropoulos.

JULY 28: A standard look at of the action at the Seashore Volleyball on day 1 of the 2012 London Olympic Game titles at Horse Guards Parade on July 28, 2012 in London, England. ( Picture by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images for Panasonic

JULY thirty : Lewis Smith of Great Britain in the Gymnastics on day 3 of the 2012 London Olympic Games at the North Greenwich Arena on July 30, 2012 in London, England. ( Photograph by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Photographs for Panasonic)

JULY 30 : Opponents contend on day three of the 2012 London Olympic Online games on July 30, 2012 in London, England. ( Picture by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Photos for Panasonic)

JULY 30 : Opponents contend on day 3 of the 2012 London Olympic Video games on July 30, 2012 in London, England. ( Photograph by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Photographs for Panasonic)