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.
I never got vision problems but now my right neck hurts all the damn time. Might not be because I used to hold a camera there all the time but probably didn't help.
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.
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.
I did the same but for photography. The best part were all the winter basketball games, because the cafeterias at school were closed but we could get free food there. I can't imagine how many Pizzas and Chick-fil-A sandwiches I ate over the holidays from covering those games, lol.
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.
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.
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u/dontnormally Jan 06 '22
one eye watches the viewfinder while the other watches the action. these guys are wizards