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Guest Ebrahim Saadawi

If it's a real question: You need 1- Little rolling shutter, 2- 60p minimum frame rate, 3- small sensor/deep DOF 4- Long general zoom range 5- long recording time/battery. 

For shooting a football/soccur match I'd pick up a Canon XF200 / XF350 or one of Sony's PMW cameras. Any large sensor or interchangeable / creative lensing solution would never work aside from catching some glamour highlight shots. 

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Careful, you are showing too much intelligence for the internet Ebrahim :)

56 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

I think it would've been smarter to use a RED Epic instead of a R1 for football, as an R1 is too long. Not round enough!

How about the Polaroid Cube for a round of tennis?

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3 hours ago, Ebrahim Saadawi said:

If it's a real question: You need 1- Little rolling shutter, 2- 60p minimum frame rate, 3- small sensor/deep DOF 4- Long general zoom range 5- long recording time/battery. 

For shooting a football/soccur match I'd pick up a Canon XF200 / XF350 or one of Sony's PMW cameras. Any large sensor or interchangeable / creative lensing solution would never work aside from catching some glamour highlight shots. 

Nah, I was in the humour mode!

BUT, if you have some interesting cheap recommendations for shooting other sports, like snowboarding / mountain biking, I'm all ears!

I've been considering getting an A6300, partly due to its 1080p HFR mode and partly because I already have a Sony to Nikon speedbooster. Another idea is to sell the speedbooster and get a GX80 - that stabilisation might be more useful than HFR mode vs 60p.

So far I've only used the gopro for filming the snowboarding, and it works nicely for the first person shooting. Here's a sample:

 

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