You ’ve never view baseball game like this . While HD and slow - motion replay have become sure-enough lid for MLB broadcasts , this post - season , FOX Sports is driven to document this year ’s activity in unprecedented detail — capturing at - bats by the microsecond . And this dyad of radical - high - speed Phantom cameras is how they ’ll do it .
TheVision Research v642is wide used for MLB broadcasts and a staple in ballpark around the land . It typically captures at 300 – 420 fps , slack the action down roughly 300 percent — handy when trying to instance a curve ball coming toward the plate .
For the NLCS and World Series , however , FOX supplemented its trio of standard v642s with a pair of custom - built rigs from Inertia Unlimited of Jacksonville , VT . Dubbed the X - Mo , this system is comprised of a v642 modified to shoot in full HD up to 5,000 Federal Protective Service . The photographic camera uses a 2.3 - foot long , 35 - British pound sterling , $ 26,000 Canon Sigma 200 - 500 mm “ SigZilla ” genus Lens , and a Telecast Copperhead 3400 fiber oculus transceiver .
“ We were looking for those variety of things you just ca n’t see at regular pep pill , ” Mike Davies , vice president of field operations for FOX Sports , say Wired . In the NLCS , Hunter Pence ’s chiropteran - breaking twice in secret plan 7 was a dramatic exercise of the photographic camera ’ potential . But really , the footage offers such unusual uncloudedness , just a introductory swing making middleman with the ball looks arresting .
For the World Series , FOX is using several X - mo systems — two each along the first and third - base lines and a 5th position at the centerfield wall — as well as 23 Sony 1500 cameras , a Sony Super - Mo 3300 , six Fletcher robo - cams , and two Bradley Engineering Cam - Balls . Last , there ’s the BFG-9000 of broadcast medium , the Phantom v1610 . The v1610 is the public ’s fastest 1MP digital high - speed camera . Commonly used to take note high - speed manufacture process , the v1610 is captures video up to 1,000,000 fps . For baseball , however , 20,000 fps using a 500 millimeter lens system is sufficient . That allowed home viewing audience to live over the Panda ’s larger-than-life three - HR Nox in World Series Game One in arresting 1280×800 clarity .
But this Modern broadcast technique is n’t without pitfalls . At its maximum seizure rate , the v1610 read less than four indorsement of video . “ You have to be judicious about how you use those things , ” explained Humphrey Davy . “ Because just an flash [ at 20,000 fps ] can last an impossibly retentive time . ” Now if only there were a agency to make Joe Buck ’s commentary tolerable .
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