Poll: Which Camera View Do You Prefer While Watching A Game?

Straight on just doesn’t look right

Many older cricket fans bemoan the passing of the time when they had only one zoom camera, so each six-ball over would alternate between being shown looking at the facing batter and looking from behind him at the bowler, thus giving a balanced focus between the two disciplines. These days they have them at both ends so, like in baseball, you always see the batter face on and the bowler’s back.

I voted angled, FWIW. It’s annoying sometimes on marginal edge-of-the-zone pitches but I really like how close in you feel to both ends of the battle.

It wasn’t directly behind home plate, just slightly angled. SNY showed that view a few times and held it there while the pitch was delivered. Wish they would go to it more often. As for the poll, i chose “straight”. I like seeing more of the field.

a good baseball team?

but from the pictures I think I’d prefered that.

You get a better look at where the pitches are, and I think you get a better sense of the movement, too. Pitching in general just seems more natural this way. I suspect that it looks so weird to some people because it’s so rarely used. I see a lot of Twins broadcasts (with the straight-on view), so maybe I’m just more used to it.

It gives a much more accurate representation on what is going on.

Angled obscures both the break and location of the pitch. Makes it much harder to enjoy watching a good pitcher.

BTW, you picked a bad example of “straight on”. Target Field’s camera’s are way to high up. The best, homerism aside, is St. Louis’ or NESN’s.

http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=11709557&topic_id=8879106&c_id=stl

Angled may not be as good for horizontal movement, but I like it better.

Really lets you appreciate the way balls break.

I remember when we had 1 camera from behind the catcher.
Them were the the days

Did anyone get the MLB.tv postseason package last year? Where they give you 4 raw camera angles but not the edited TV feed? How is it? I canceled cable recently…

but i always prefer the first picture’s view

but I’m certainly not hating it at first glance. I am also a fan of the behind the plate camera. Also, whatever happened to the catcher cam they used to have? That was terrible but it was enjoyable on replays of home runs.