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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Eli5: How golf cameras are able to follow the ball on its fly?
gpt
It takes a lot of practice but the short answer is very good camera operators.

Camera operation is an art unto itself and it demands 100% attention and an incredible ability to multi-task because they have to spot, pan, and zoom as smoothly as possible within seconds of a que they have no control over.

On something like that there are usually multiple operators covering from different angles and the director is watching a bank of monitors calling out which feed goes live to the audience. So if 5 cameras are covering 1 or 2 lost the ball and the other 3 are of varying quality and the best one goes out to broadcast.

Shouts out to IATSE. Without hands the show don't go.