Photography: Stunning Timelapse Captures the Many Faces of Rio de Janeiro

Capra captured the footage using a Canon 5D Mark III and Mark II, a PhaseOne 1Q 180 and various Canon lenses. Most of the locations pictured in “RIO” are indeed parts of the city itself, but the waterfall scenes were taken at Iguazú Falls, some 900 miles from Rio at the Brazilian-Argentinian border; some have given Capra flack for including the Iguazú shots in the timelapse, but as for us—the film is so mesmerizing that we don’t mind one bit.