November 23, 2009
Throughout the six-game-long 2009 World Series broadcast, FOX Sports provided viewers with footage from behind home plate and down the first base line using a Vision Research Phantom v640 digital high-speed camera. One of approximately 20 cameras used in the broadcast, the Phantom v640, provided by Inertia Unlimited, recorded every play in 1280x720 at speeds of up to 540fps.
At Yankee Stadium in New York, the Phantom v640 was positioned at low-first, capturing the powerful swings of right-handed batters in ultra-slow motion. The camera's vantage point from behind home plate at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia also supplied a number of ultra-slow-motion replays.
Inertia Unlimited’s team of engineers leveraged the impressive low-light performance of the Phantom v640’s CMOS sensor and applied a custom color matrix, fine-tuned to match the high-definition footage from other cameras throughout the stadium. This custom-calibration allowed Inertia Unlimited's X-Mo slow-motion system to shoot at negative gain and with a nominal aperture to provide FOX Sports with the cleanest, lowest-noise image possible for seamless integration with all of its camera feeds. This allowed X-Mo to be used for both live-on-air shots and ultra-slow-motion replays in both the behind-home-plate and low-first position.
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