With the proliferation of news websites, I notice more and more new cameraman present at media scrums and live events. May be due to lack of experience or youthful exhuberence, their etiquette is sometimes quite bemusing. The result is lose-lose situation when the scrum becomes literally like a rugby scrum and everyone gets into everyone else's shot. Then it becomes a competition who can shove his camera nearer to the spokesperson or who can go higher over everybody else's camera. Occasionally, one old bird who is lucky to be in the inner perimeter will yell at the eager beavers to take a few steps back. But I suspect their voice of reason too often gets drowned out by the noise.
And so until somebody actually gets trampled to death, I'm afraid it will increasingly be every lensmen for himself. For the videographers, a monopod overhead is de rigueur. ditto articulating screen and good IBIS. I'm not sure how to block the strobes from photographers. but gone are the days of CCDs. Smaller cameras are definitely an advantage in such situations, so bring on the RX100s, the QXs and the Gopros. Thank God for WIFI remote.
Habbycam used to make a mini pulley jib that would be great used perfectly vertical. The angle of tilt can be controlled by a handle and a pulley.
But do I really want a bird's eye view in every soundbite? If everyone can just chill...
And so until somebody actually gets trampled to death, I'm afraid it will increasingly be every lensmen for himself. For the videographers, a monopod overhead is de rigueur. ditto articulating screen and good IBIS. I'm not sure how to block the strobes from photographers. but gone are the days of CCDs. Smaller cameras are definitely an advantage in such situations, so bring on the RX100s, the QXs and the Gopros. Thank God for WIFI remote.
Habbycam used to make a mini pulley jib that would be great used perfectly vertical. The angle of tilt can be controlled by a handle and a pulley.
But do I really want a bird's eye view in every soundbite? If everyone can just chill...
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