Fox has caught the eyes of NFL fans the past two
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Michael Wacha Jersey 24-70mm f/2.8 GM lens, DJI Ronin-S gimbal, a field monitor and a 1080p wirele s transmitter.Why is Fox using a new NFL camera?Fox Sports was already utilizing "The Megalodon" to shoot some pregame and postgame footage, and they liked how the shots looked. So they chose to use it as the 11th camera in their repertoire for the Week 15 game between Seattle and Washington.This camera isnt ordinarily made to shoot live video, Mike Davies, a senior vice president at Fox Sports, . It certainly does a great job of shooting beautiful video but is not typically used for live. We were astonished by how much this was recognized. Certainly, we liked it, and people on our crew have been working with it all year, but we didnt know your ordinary viewer would see such a
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