On 11/08/2013 21:55, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 19:47:47 +0100, SteveW wrote:

And your job will no longer be possible in that form.
The only reason you do it is because it's possible.

No, because it is necessary. The work I do is specialised. There will be
a demand for it. There will never be enough qualified and experienced
people living in easy reach of companies specialising in it and site
visits will always be a necessity.

Agreed, like my job. But then I don't think Harry has a television
but the same applies to a fair bit of radio output as well.

There are a few broadcast camera and sound people in the Newcastle
area but no where near enough to crew the test match at
Chester-le-Street. And TBH I doubt many of the local camera operators
have that much cricket experience. It's not easy following the action
at the tight end of a big zoom lens when the angle of view is less
than half the width of your little finger at arms length.

The closest I've got to that is trying to photograph/film drag racing -
at least that's in a nice predictable straight line, but was bloody
useless at trying to keep them in the viewfinder!

In fact for stills I did become quite good at using a tripod, allowing
for the shutter lag and hoping they'd be were I'd predicted when it
actually took!

I probably couldn't do that any more either.

SteveW