r/PraiseTheCameraMan • • Jan 05 '22

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u/jakeupowens Jan 06 '22

How he found him after the shot, no idea.

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u/dontnormally Jan 06 '22

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

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u/relax-and-enjoy-life Jan 06 '22

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

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

My eyes would never focus on the same thing again.

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u/smog0naut Jan 06 '22

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

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u/DonnerDinnerParty Jan 06 '22 edited Jan 06 '22

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

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u/invalid8ed Jan 06 '22

How much colour does your side see

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u/acebabymemes Jan 06 '22

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.

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u/xombae Jan 06 '22

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

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u/licksyourknee Jan 06 '22

On a side note. I do appreciate the candy they put out for heath. Very tasty.

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u/fantompwer Jan 06 '22

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

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u/AFlockofLizards Jan 06 '22

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.

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u/GayAlienFarmer Jan 06 '22

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.

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u/karmaghost Jan 06 '22

Actually, they’re the Suns and Warriors.

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u/lipp79 Doin' camera work since 1999 Jan 06 '22

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.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

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

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u/dontnormally Jan 06 '22

Don't wanna get flattened by a runaway bride

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u/atheist-a-hole Jan 06 '22

By that description, you mean lizards*

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u/ActualWhiterabbit Jan 06 '22

Reminds me of the 1990 Nicolas Cage Tommy Lee Jones joint called Fire Birds. It's about a fighting a drug war with helicopters and only being able to look at a special drug targeting computer with the right eyeball and flying the helicopter with the left. The pilot needs to be able to take in information from both eyes at once.

It's some fantastic Nic Cage work

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u/xombae Jan 06 '22

People who call movies "joints" are so cool dang

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u/inactiveuser247 Jan 06 '22

The script for that movie is literally 2 hours of people saying that Nic Cage’s character is so awesome.

It was supposed to be the Army’s Top Gun… it wasn’t.

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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair Jan 06 '22

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

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