In the backstage videos of music videos, you can see that camera operators are filming with small video cameras.

In the backstage scenes of TV shows, you can see that cameramen are filming with large cameras that they carry on their shoulder (or mounted on a tripod).

Comparing the quality of music videos and recordings of various shows posted on YouTube by TV channels, I do not find any difference.

It seems that small video cameras shoot just as well as large video cameras.

What is the difference?

  • realcaseyrollins
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    28 months ago

    I’d imagine that zoom length is a massive factor. I could be wrong but usually cameras in something like a news studio are reasonably far away from the host. It might not seem like much at scale but it’s probably a more considerable distance than even putting a camera on the other side of the room in your home. It also explains why, from a perspective standpoint, a headshot of a host on cable news will always looks different than, say, the headshot of a Twitch stream (Twitch streamers tend to use far smaller cameras that are way closer to their faces).