I was shooting a European Championship boxingbout between Amin Asikainen and Gevor Khor. The former EBU middleweight champion lost his title to German Khoren Gevor in the November 2008 title bout through a technical knock-out in Helsinki.

If I remember correctly, originally the bout was scheduled to be 12 rounds, but ended in the seventh.

As the time of the bout was rather late (starting approx. 22.30 at night) and I was working for two different clients, in two different cities, I decided to try to make use of the wireless transmitter to make the deadline - first of them being 22.45.

I saved the images in two different folders, one for each client, which contained FTP-watchers, activated. The images were finally delivered in highres jpg-format(medium compression) over 3G-network. Typically, I was ready to continue shooting c. 10-15 secs after the next round started and the client had the images well before the round was over.

The other client ran a cover and two spread story the following day and made good use of images. Tearsheet are on the right.

This is presented here to demonstrate the use of two separate Canon WFT2 transmitters in two EOS-1D mrk3 bodies in a very fast workflow.

I set up the cameras so that both fed FTP-transfer into the computer by the push of the SET-button over a private network (MacBookPro 17" generated). What might be surprising is that I shot - due to really bad lighting - RAW throughout the bout. A round lasting 3 min and a break of 1 min in between, I managed to edit and send on the average 2 different images of each round to both of my clients separately, appropriately captioned.

This was achieved by making use of templates - both in captioning and in image editing - and by litereally practising the workflow in advance. The only technical clitch encountered was that one should not transmit from two cameras at the same time, they jam. But on the other hand, I had 11g-net between the WFT2s and the Mac so there was really no need for it either.

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