All over the place now. ESPN used them for awhile but now every network NFL broadcast uses them, even seen them on some baseball broadcasts.

The amount of blur they create is disorienting enough, but CBS just threw to a sideline report shot on such a lens, and also had the camera swaying back and forth during the report. I was instantly dizzy.

Stop. Doing. This. It's. Not. An. Art. Project.

Is that the effect where the person in the foreground looks focused, but the background is a blur? I call it the video game effect, first time I saw it, I thought is was from a video game.

Yeah that's it.

I wondered what they were doing. It looked ridiculous.

i like it for td celebrations

I also thought it was just another attempt to make the game look like a video game.

Just like how they don't show profile pictures but something like an artist rendering of players also like a video game.

Looks dumb. The profile pic I don't mind as much but the camera shot is pointless.

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The camera, known as the "Megladon" is very cheap (relatively...around 10K) and that is the size of your old SLR. It's restricted field of focus means that your neighborhood toddler could pick it up and have a usable shot. Shooting 8K for about 8K, it's not going away.




This is dead on. And if you think about it, the "cable cam" above the field was borne out of a need to mimic the experience for fans (read:young fans) growing up experiencing more Madden games than actual football.

I'd even say it is life imitating art. or at least Electronic Arts.

The cable cam was an XFL innovation that the NFL borrowed. That would have been PSX/N64-era Madden, not something to really emulate in real life.

I don't care for this wide-aperture thing. Save it for NFL Films and keep the live telecast simple.

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Why is this a "new" thing?

Haven't cameras been able to do that for a long time?

If so, why are they tryin' it now?

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Some harness tracks are using this at the beginning of races. I hate it.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

any computer animation showing dancing or other weird ESPN-inspired memes/jokes are horrendous.

like we're already in "ready player one" world forever. a place called maddenland.

madden was fun when it was a video game, not a way of life.