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Was the footage from side boosters bothbooster footage from the same camera during the Falcon Heavy test flight stream?

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Was the footage from side boosters both from the same camera?

Chat has once again led me to ask a question.

Geoffc suggest that the "two bottom feeds were from the same camera" as they aimed at the same landing site. I then started to collect some images to see if they were indeed identical (listed below):

Image 1: Booster footage showing the ignition of the other side booster with identical orientation.

Launch pad in site, with ignition of booster that lands on LZ-1

Image 2: Pre-separation, The land is clearly identical in orientation, although the flame is only nearly identical.

Same booster pre-separation

Now I'm of the opinion that the same identical camera was used, this is especially clear at the end, when both cameras are shown aiming for LZ-2. But was this the case throughout the flight? Or did something go wrong shortly before landing requiring them to resort to using the same footage twice.