Quote Originally Posted by teecee View Post
I've read a bit on here about the poor tv cover of Harness Racing especially in Victoria.
Can it be that Channel 7 used these same people today to do the camera and production work for the Melbourne Cup.
We were provided with coverage of Channel 7 efforts today on NZ Tab TV.
IMO it was the worst piece of sporting television I think I have ever witnessed. The first 100 metres of aerial coverage was not bad.
The last 250 metres from the main camera allowed one to finally see where there runner was positioned. The rest, taken from a ground level moving object positioned some 50 metres in front of and to the inside of the field provided absolutely no comparative perspective of where each horse was positioned. It was genuinely pathetic.
We are used to the inside of the field camera Tony and when they use it for close-up panning it is not too bad, what was particularly bad this year was that long distance shot employed after the first 100m of aerial all the way until the back straight - dreadful and resembled a promo for tourists type production