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rscheffler wrote:
For some reason, at the football games I've covered, if someone on the sideline is going to get plastered by a football player running/diving out of bounds, it's a video guy. I guess with those wide-range video zoom lenses (not the huge ones on mega-tripods), as one zooms wide to keep the action in the frame, it's easy to forget that 'objects are closer than they appear.'
Roger, your reconstruction would make an interesting blog post!
I remember in NASCAR, an infield photographer was shooting a car that had hit the wall and slid into the infield. It hit the photographer. He saw it coming, but through the lens, it didn't seem close enough to be a factor yet. He was planning to move but thought he had time. Nope. He got airborne. Maybe something to remember when a bear is coming after you!
Maybe with the IR focusing assist, in the future the camera can measure the camera subject distance and flash a message, "Warning: Object in lens is a hell of a lot closer than you think!"
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