Please find on youtube.com some videos I shot last year over 50 and 60m. It will give you an idea of where to stand and how to pan the camera with the runner. It also shows how you can zoom in and out to capture as much info as possible. You don’t want to zoom in too much, or you lose sense of the run with relation to the the surroundings. And, if you don’t zoom in enough, it’s tough to capture enough detail.
You also notice that choice of background is important. The cars in the background create some problems for viewing. Usually, we only have a green grassy slope. Sorry, these were the only files I had on my computer at the office. I have some better ones I shot last week that I will eventually post.
For the 50m sprint from blocks, I stood at about the 40m mark and about 40m to the side of the run (perpendicular). I zoomed in for the start, then slowly zoomed out as I panned along the run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neoSEMS6-JI
For the 60m sprint from a stand, I stood at perpendicular to the 50m mark, and stood at least 40-45m back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68PzN9fd_IM
You are pretty much arranging yourself in an isosceles triangle where the length of the run is almost the same distance as how far back you stand. Of course, you need a camera that can zoom to a minimum of 10x. I used a Sanyo HD1A digital camera for these shots. Nice light camera with good slo-mo ability and writes to an SD Card for easy transfer to my laptop.
The postings on Youtube.com were sigificantly downgraded when I uploaded them. You can see quite a bit of pixelation that doesn’t appear on the original 2 meg WMV files I created in Windows Movie Maker. It’s also nice to post the run in both regular motion and slow motion (35% to 50% of the original speed is best).
I hope this helps.
sorry