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Author:  Juice's Lecture Notes [ Sun Sep 19, 2021 5:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Wide aperture lenses in sports broadcasts
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.
Author:  Yossarian. [ Tue Sep 21, 2021 11:35 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Wide aperture lenses in sports broadcasts
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.
Author:  Juice's Lecture Notes [ Tue Sep 21, 2021 11:40 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Wide aperture lenses in sports broadcasts
Yossarian. wrote:
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.
Author:  MongoMuller [ Tue Sep 21, 2021 11:48 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Wide aperture lenses in sports broadcasts
I wondered what they were doing. It looked ridiculous.
Author:  billypootons [ Tue Sep 21, 2021 2:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Wide aperture lenses in sports broadcasts
i like it for td celebrations
Author:  Dr. Kenneth Noisewater [ Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Wide aperture lenses in sports broadcasts
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.
Author:  OscarTangoEcho [ Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Wide aperture lenses in sports broadcasts
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.


Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
I also thought it was just another attempt to make the game look like a video game.


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.
Author:  Curious Hair [ Tue Sep 21, 2021 7:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Wide aperture lenses in sports broadcasts
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.
Author:  whistler [ Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Wide aperture lenses in sports broadcasts
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?
Author:  Rod [ Tue Oct 05, 2021 6:07 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Wide aperture lenses in sports broadcasts
Some harness tracks are using this at the beginning of races. I hate it.
Author:  W_Z [ Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:13 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Wide aperture lenses in sports broadcasts
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.
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