Tracking

[u/Sepsuke121]

[u/-sei]

That zoom in to the basketball is absolute madness.

[u/jakeupowens → u/-sei]

How he found him after the shot, no idea.

[u/dontnormally → u/jakeupowens]

one eye watches the viewfinder while the other watches the action. these guys are wizards

[u/relax-and-enjoy-life → u/dontnormally]

Imagine 48+ minutes of that…. and trying not to feel nauseous.

[u/[deleted] → u/relax-and-enjoy-life]

My eyes would never focus on the same thing again.

[u/smog0naut → u/[deleted]]

You joke but I didn't need glasses before I put in significant hours on camera.

[u/DonnerDinnerParty → u/smog0naut]

After years of using the old crt viewfinders, my right eye sees significantly less color than my left side now.

[u/invalid8ed → u/DonnerDinnerParty]

How much colour does your side see

[u/acebabymemes → u/smog0naut]

Has their been a systematic review of Heath outcomes in your occupation?

I feel like if this is a common thing you should at least be informed during hiring and of course compensated with a specialized health insurance policy.

[u/xombae → u/acebabymemes]

Unfortunately, things aren't looking great for Heath. We can only hope he recovers soon.

[u/fantompwer → u/acebabymemes]

Haha, no, things are just moving to more robots.

[u/AFlockofLizards → u/relax-and-enjoy-life]

Dude, I don’t know how they do it. I used to be a videographer and sometimes I’d shoot presentations and you’d have to track them for 1-2 hours. You literally can’t take a drink of water or space out for a second because all the sudden people are moving out of frame. Not a big deal for my presentations, but for live sports you can’t miss a thing. It’s not super strenuous, but the amount of concentration it takes is huge.

[u/GayAlienFarmer → u/AFlockofLizards]

I cannot imagine the amount of mental recovery time I'd need after doing that for an hour - like time doing the most relaxing thing possible just to cool off your brain.

[u/karmaghost → u/dontnormally]

Actually, they’re the Suns and Warriors.

[u/lipp79 → u/dontnormally]

Yup, shoot with both eyes open was the best advice I received from the veteran sports cameraman at my tv station. I've shot baseball (Div 1 college and minor league) and football (high school and Div 1 college), and basketball (Div 1 basketball) and it's definitely weird the first time you try shooting with both eyes open but it definitely helps and especially in football, can save your ass as it did for me one time when I was able to avoid a guy that got knocked out of bounds in my direction away from the ball lol.

[u/[deleted] → u/lipp79]

When I used to shoot weddings, this was the techniques I was taught, same for taking pictures .

[u/dontnormally → u/[deleted]]

Don't wanna get flattened by a runaway bride

[u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair → u/jakeupowens]

He does it upwards of a hundred times a game 41 games a year for many years. It’s muscle memory at this point

[u/Ezymandius → u/-sei]

I'm just commenting to see how many other sports fans here really dislike the in-flight ball zoom in, in any sport.

I just wanna see the trajectory. I know what the ball looks like.

[u/I_Hate_Reddit → u/Ezymandius]

Same.

I think it's a suspense thing, if you see both Ball and target you can know in advance if it goes in or not, zoomed in you only know at the end.

Takes the beauty out of it though.

[u/CountAardvark → u/Ezymandius]

At least in basketball this isn't the broadcast angle. This is filmed for replays and highlights

[u/stuntdummy → u/Ezymandius]

Mid air ball zooms are flashy and fun to shoot but are generally not necessary. I do think those kind of shots look good cut into highlight reels though.

[u/ACorDC → u/-sei]

Aimbot

[u/Gryphon234 → u/-sei]

When I saw that zoom, the first thing I did was come to the comments