Coincidence that the same weekend we are watching the events unfold in CA (Canada) that the NFC Championship Game is being played in CA (California) by two California teams in the same stadium where the Super Bowl will be played two weeks from now? Will this be the Super Bowl that will be made to look "like a puppy party?" by the events/storm swirling around it?
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They're using shallow depth of field .{if I remember my training}. Plus it's 4k digital so back in the day when we used film and shallow depth of field it still didn't look like this does.
Looks like a video game when on the field.
I’ve been trying to figure this out myself as I see footage of Xiden from the Annex. Something is off w the depth of field. It’s my photographers eye and tech experience. Broadcast from the field may be shot in 8K and down scaled to 4K and 1080i/p. But that wouldn’t change the depth of field. It could be done digitally. Unless something new came up in the laws of photography, I don’t get some of the imagery I see on TV.
Usually the lens would change the depth of field such as a wide angle as opposed to a telephoto
Telephoto lenses run at higher F stop (exposure) which has a much longer depth of field. Shorter, wide angle lenses can run “faster” ie greater exposure. When you get into low f lenses <F1.8 the depth of field becomes very shallow. I think w the video I see from WH and in sports the unnatural depth of field. All that said, there are still a hundred other technical innovations and changes I’m sure I’m not aware of - stadium cameras w image stitching, 12K VR, all sorts of CGI tools. So I dunno…
Yep true. A lot has changed since my film days.
But we can agree it's definitely shallow depth of field... And other gimmicks
That’s along the lines of what I was thinking. I haven’t watched in years but mult times (for pointless shit on the sidelines/endzone) it just looked off. And not zoomed out ‘regular view’ but up closer to players. My tv hasn’t changed so figured 4K cameras wouldn’t make much of a difference. Thanks fren. 4k + shallow FoD prob explains it