News Shooter | Channel 7 cameraman Greg Parker captures the Sydney Seige and helps police

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Channel 7 cameraman Greg Parker captures the Sydney Seige and helps police – Newsshooter

By technical editor Matt Allard: Over the last day or so many you will have seen the extraordinary images of the siege at a Sydney cafe which ended in the deaths of three people including the attacker. As the story was making headlines around the globe Ch

via Newsshooter: http://www.newsshooter.com/2014/12/16/channel-7-cameraman-greg-parker-captures-the-sydney-seige-and-aids-police/

Greg was inside the Channel 7 studios that are located adjacent to the Lindt cafe when the attack occurred. For more than 16 hours Greg manned multiple cameras recording events. But that wasn’t all. When police marksmen moved in to surround the cafe they realised that Greg’s cameras were perfectly situated to keep eyes on what was going on. Instead of being asked to vacate the position overlooking the cafe the officers requested that Greg stay and assist them. His long lens helped to provide crucial intelligence for the operation – at points he was even asked to point the camera in certain directions by the police command.