the camera work for the Catterick 12:30...

Appalling camera work.

Wouldn't even have occurred to the cameraman to actually show what was happening.

sparrow...

how can a professional cameraperson look through a lens...

see a horse going to the right (and it was the long-time leader btw)...

and think to themselves 'i'll just ignore it' ?

how is that possible ?

it's utterly disgraceful...

not the first time very strange things have happened either by the camera person or the telly director in the racecourse truck...

i ain't daft.

and what does Racetech do about it ?

SFA.

Many of these people will probably have no understanding of how to film a horserace and what the viewer expects to see.

they can't be that naive imv sparrow...

the leader veers off the track and they say to themselves 'i won't bother following the horse' ?

i mean that is just laughable if you ask me.

Seems to be for us hibby but we are concentrating on the race properly!

i'm less forgiving than you are sparrow...

seen too many 'strange' things going on from camera folk/tv directors in the racecourse trucks tbh.

Dec 19, 2023 -- 1:38PM, HappyHibby wrote:

i'm less forgiving than you are sparrow...seen too many 'strange' things going on from camera folk/tv directors in the racecourse trucks tbh.

There is no benefit from anyone involved in the production of BFL pics deliberately sabotaging pics. They still won't beat the drones.

wake up jamee.

anyone playing off raw feed pics is well ahead of drones.

Wake up Hibby. It's the viewing angle that delivers most of the benefit, not the delay. Drones are level with RTV pics which are only about half a second behind live.

It's not the year 2010 anymore.

and you reckon half a second means nowt jamee ?

and half a second is a minimum btw...

i have absolutely no doubt it is more than that from time to time.

You can believe what you want to believe. But every day you waste energy on some big production conspiracy that doesn't exist.

so jamee...

if a horse slips on a bend...runs out at a hurdle...falls over a fence...pulls up for whatever reason...

who do you reckon has the best chance of getting it first ?

someone with a mimimum 0.5 sec advantage...

or someone sat at home watching drone footage ?

The whole coverage is focused against the serious punter who plays in-running or wants to observe whats going on behind the front two.

1- camera remaining static on the winning line...surely they could just zoom back and show whats happening to the place horses and also rans..

2- Close ups- usually from that poxy truck camera,just a arty-farty idea..pointless imo..

3-No Head-on...vital if you take the game seriously..

There is very little difference now between RTV and that shower of **** at Sky Sports Racing (RTV do have a good racing replay),majority of today's pundits bore you rigid..Talk a lot..Say nothing..

The Bookies run the game, would not surprise me if they have informed Racetech etc to show as little as possible..

That's my rant over for this year, nothing will change..

Not sure why i bother

some interesting stuff there knot in wood tbh.

Dec 19, 2023 -- 2:08PM, HappyHibby wrote:

so jamee...if a horse slips on a bend...runs out at a hurdle...falls over a fence...pulls up for whatever reason...who do you reckon has the best chance of getting it first ?someone with a mimimum 0.5 sec advantage...or someone sat at home watching drone footage ?

If that's your game then obvs the latency, but they are exceptional events and it's not where the money is.

You seem convinced the whole production set-up is deliberately using inferior camera work, just to give a couple of guys in a van a negligible advantage over dozens of pro drone users. It would never be worth the cost, time, and effort.

I'm just trying to save you the wasted energy and stress, but you will believe what you want to believe.

i will jamee but thanx for your concern.

looks like they have a low level closeb up camera on the finishes today and it looked like that was the camera they tried to pick him ducking out with but went to wide for them on that camera

took the commentator a good while to spot it running out

i think you will find it was the 'head on camera person' who missed the horse going right initially 1st time poster...

looked to me like it wanted to duck out at the paddock entrance bit but as we weren't allowed to see it then it's hard to be 100% sure tbh.

Crikey i'd love to know how you lot coped when you needed some crappy teletext service to get results and only saw live TV coverage once a fortnight , the good old nostalgia days that can do no wrong