I was browsing through The Official White House Photostream on Flickr today. The photographs are excellent. Pete Souza is the Chief Official White House Photographer for President Obama and Director of the White House photo office.
I noticed that the EXIF data was available for just about every photo and it contained lens information. Naturally, being a programmer/photography geek, I decided to download the EXIF data for all 1,433 photos (as of today) and find out which lenses the White House photography staff likes best. Here are the results:
Cameras
| Camera | # of photos |
| Canon EOS 5D Mark II | 1074 |
| Canon EOS 1DS Mark III | 31 |
| Canon EOS 5D | 23 |
| Canon EOS 1DS Mark II | 2 |
| Unknown | 303 |
Lenses
| Lens | # of photos |
| EF35mm f/1.4L USM | 439 |
| EF50mm f/1.2L USM | 179 |
| EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM | 166 |
| EF135mm f/2L USM | 136 |
| EF24mm f/1.4L II USM | 69 |
| EF85mm f/1.2L II USM | 34 |
| EF70-200mm f/4L USM | 16 |
| EF70-200mm f/4L IS USM | 27 |
| EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM | 20 |
| EF28mm f/1.8 USM | 10 |
| EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM | 5 |
| EF135mm f/2L USM +1.4x | 3 |
| EF300mm f/2.8L IS USM | 3 |
| EF70-200mm f/2.8L USM | 3 |
| EF24mm f/1.4L USM | 3 |
| EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM | 2 |
| EF70-200mm f/2.8L USM +1.4x | 2 |
| 70.0-200.0 mm | 2 |
| EF20mm f/2.8 USM | 1 |
| EF35mm f/2 | 1 |
| EF70-200mm f/4L IS USM +1.4x | 1 |
| EF200mm f/1.8L USM | 1 |
| Unknown | 310 |
Pretty neat, gotta love that Flickr API.
Was thinking about doing something similar with my own photos, and maybe including exposure data and PlaceID info, too.
And yes, that is quite a lens collection there.
Why are the photographers cameras so loud during a press conference? Can they be silenced?
What do you mean? You mean all that click-click-clicking during a press conference? Probably so that the press corps can be distracted by those noises, so that spokeskid Jay Carney’s Obama lies don’t get heard by everyone, LOL!
no they cannot be silenced they cameras use mechanical shutters with mirrors which must make the flick sound you hear. Some mirrorless cameras can be silent but top photographers are not using them yet.