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Soccer’s Bermuda Triangle Of TV Camera Angles

Started by The Gaffer · 10 months ago

Fans of association football will have all experienced this at one time or another. When watching a match on TV, there’s a specific camera angle that’s diagonal to the goal where it looks like the ball is going near the net, only to find out that the ball goes up and i ... Continue reading »

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LemmusLemmus
1 year ago

I think the simple answer is that TV's two-dimensional. This never happens if you watch a game in the stadium.

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betsy's bolton bum baster
1 year ago

yeah, the ball being round and not a certain shape also affects this because you cannot see it turning and changing angles for you to view it. sux, but hey what can you do? does an hd feed do the same?

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the guy with the thing
1 year ago

The camera, being a single lens, effectively eliminates your depth perception; it's the equivalent of covering your non-dominant eye and watching a game live that way.

Thus, the only way you can tell if the ball is going towards or away from you is based on its size (if it's getting bigger, it's obviously moving towards you.) Since the camera is so far from the pitch, you can't discern at that speed which direction the ball is going.

The same thing happens often in baseball, even to players on the field; because the ball is so small, hard fouls backwards often look like line drives / hard ground balls forward.

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