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SNY Gets Creative With Audio, Camera, and Talent Placement Around Citi Field 03/28/2013 “Bill Webb, our director, likes to move [the X-Mo] around, and I welcome that,” says Gowdy. “It’s really best suited down low. We’ve had great success with it at low first and low third, down-the-line positions looking down the first-base line, looking down the third-base line. We’ve also used it in the outfield. We have found its greatest visual impact closer to home plate.”

NBA's Phantom Cam Captures the Heat's 20th Straight Win 03/21/2013 One of the best captures by this camera is certainly the LeBron James double-pump reverse dunk at 1:02 into the video. It's also cool to see Jrue Holiday slip by the block attempt by James for the dunk at the 2:11 mark in the video, followed by Spencer Hawes awkwardly watching the flying hip bump by Holiday and Evan Turner.

The Mission Creates Nike Vapor Trail 01/23/2013 Venice, CA -- The Mission crafts a miraculous, tornado-like homage to soccer mega star Cristiano Ronaldo in the new :60 “Vapor Trail” for Nike Football (Soccer) out of Wieden+Kennedy, Portland/Tokyo. The spot features a soccer team and stadium of fans fighting gale-force winds and debris—both human and non-human—as Ronaldo leaves a whirlwind en route to the goal. Continue reading.

I-MOVIX Cameras a Slam Dunk for NBA Coverage 12/28/2012 Fletcher will supply up to six I-MOVIX cameras per weekend during the NBA on ESPN season in the US. The cameras will be placed behind the back board and will be known as “slam-cams.” After a successful demonstration during last year’s play-offs all six cameras debuted during games on Christmas Day.

High-Speed Phantom Cam To Make MMA Debut at UFC on Fox 5 12/06/2012 Viewers will get to see the UFC in a whole new way when the Fox Phantom Cam makes its mixed-martial-arts debut during UFC on Fox 5 this Saturday (8 p.m. ET). The Vision Research Phantom v642 camera supplied by Inertia Unlimited will be positioned on a robotic mount on the truss frame near the octagon and will be running at speeds up to 3,000 frames per second. Continue reading.

Phantom High-Speed Camera's Save Money on Manufacturing Downtime! 11/29/2012 Real life applications for Phantom® high speed cameras in the manufacturing industry. Check out our three customer stories where these cameras saved them from losing thousands of dollars in production downtime. Consult ITM Instruments, the exclusive Canadian distributor of Phantom® high speed cameras from Vision Research. www.itm.com/phantom. Check out the video

Beauty of the Beast 11/26/2012 David Braun of National Geographic on November 20, 2012 The slow-motion video is entrancing, revealing the fluid grace of the world’s fastest land animal. Every part of the sprinting cat’s anatomy—supple limbs, rippling muscles, hyperflexible spine—works together in a symphony of speed. The extraordinary footage—captured last summer during an intensive three-day shoot at the Cincinnati Zoo—is unprecedented in its clarity and detail. “I’ve watched cheetahs run for 30 years,” said Cathryn Hilker, founder of the zoo’s Cat Ambassador Program. “But I saw things in that super slow-motion video that I’ve never seen before.” Continue reading and watch the video.

Cinematographer Jim Geduldick uses Vision Research’s Phantom Miro to capture action sports 11/02/2012 By Iain Blair, HDVideoPro Earlier this year when cinematographer Jim Geduldick first heard that Vision Research was developing their new Phantom Miro M120 and M320S high-speed cameras, he went straight to the U.S. distributor, AbelCine, about the possibility of being the first DP to use it on a project. With his background in shooting action sports, Geduldick had the idea of taking the small high-res camera to the streets of New York City and Camp Woodward, Pa., an action-sports camp he attended as a kid. Continue reading.

BTS: How National Geographic Captured Cheeta Running at Full Speed 10/26/2012 PetaPixel; Michael Zhang; Oct 25, 2012 Back in June, a National Geographic crew was given the task of filming and photographing a cheetah running at full speed. While there are plenty of videos and photos out there showing this, the magazine wanted to track alongsidethe cheetah as it ran (rather than simply capture it from a fixed location). The short behind-the-scenes video above shows how they went about doing this. Read more

Compact Slo-Mo 10/26/2012 HD Video Pro; By Iain Blair; Tuesday, October 23, 2012 By comparison, the Miro "is super-light, and it can run off smaller batteries, which is another big advantage," he reports. Geduldick also rates the Miro's compactness and user-friendliness. Continue reading.

High-Speed Cameras Take Center Stage at World Series on Fox 10/25/2012 By: Brandon Costa, Senior Editor - Sports Video Group Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 12:35 pm For the World Series, Fox will use an even more souped-up high-speed camera: a Phantom v1610 that can capture images at a stunning 20,000 fps. Tested toward the end of the NLCS, this Super X-Mo allows viewers to see such detail as the bend of the bat and the compression of the ball as it makes contact. The camera is the first of its kind in MLB coverage and is positioned low down the first baseline.

Hockey Night on Discovery Channel Looks at Sport Science in Super Slo Mo 10/25/2012 Mediacaster Magazine - DAILY NEWS Oct 24, 2012 8:03 AM Science broadcaster Jay Ingram is now doing play-by-play, with the debut of an action-packed original documentary production looking at how hockey teams get a winning edge from scientific research. Viewers of Scoring with Science on the Discovery Canada specialty service will also get an edge; certain program sequences are shot with a camera called the Phantom Flex, a super high-speed digital high definition video camera.

The Science of High-Speed Video: Go Slow-Mo with Vision Research’s Phantom Miro M320S 10/25/2012 Creative Planet Network; Published On: 10/23/12 03:10:07 PM; By:Jay Ankeney The capabilities of small-format digital video cameras keep improving. Now even high-speed digital photography is becoming affordable for digital cinematographers. The Phantom Miro M320S from Vision Research is a rugged high-speed camera that can shoot 1,380 fps at 1920 x 1200 or more than 1,500 fps at 1920 x 1080 thanks to 10 μm pixel microlenses on its custom-designed CMOS sensor. That sensor also gives it significantly enhanced light sensitivity for a 2-megapixel camera with 3.2 gigapixels per second throughput. Continue reading.

Breaking Good: Hunter Pence's Crucial Double Hits Bat Three Times 10/24/2012 Jordan Schwartz / MLB.com FOX's super slow-motion replay, powered by Inertia Unlimited's X-Mo (and the Phantom v642) revealed that Pence actually hit the ball three seperate times on his broken-bat double that turned a tight 2-0 margin into a comfortable 5-0 lead.

Super-Slo-Mo Cam at Playoff Game Puts Fresh Spin on Watching Baseball 10/17/2012 Wired. By Jakob Schiller 10.17.12 6:30 AM Positioned just beyond the dugout on the first base line, the camera’s intense slow motion made extremely familiar mechanics, like swinging a bat and pitching, seem new again under its temporal microscope. Continue reading.

Seeing Again For The Very First Time: The High-Speed Photography Of Vision Research 10/08/2012 Published on 8 Oct 2012 by Alex Boniface; Imagesource.com For many decades, High-Speed photography has been a tool largely reserved for the scientific and engineering sectors. The ability to record thousands, if not millions of frames per second allows researchers to visualise and analyse the motion of virtually anything, from computer chip manufacturing robots to rocket-propelled grenades. However as the price of this technology has started to decline, the creative sector has started to embrace its possibilities. The emotional engagement made available through these techniques allows viewers to see something again for the very first time. For over twenty years, Vision Research, a New-Jersey based company whose cameras have won countless accolades, including an Emmy, across both the creative and industrial sectors have been at the helm of this technology. Continue reading

Fiction Product Test 001: The Phantom Miro Starring Gallagher 09/20/2012 When we ran into the Phantom Miro at NAB this year, we knew we had to come up with the perfect subject to put its capabilities to the test. Enter Gallagher: 80's icon and nemesis to watermelons the world over. He's a master smasher, word-smith, and complete science geek extraordinaire with a work ethic that brought him to us early and had him staying late... It's hard to actually put into words what 10 days with Gallagher is like. In reality, it isn't much different than the video shows. Sometimes it feels like everything is 3,200 fps and sometimes it's ramped faster than reality. No matter what, it's a smashing good time. Continue reading.

Editec Scoops Ultra SloMo Contract For Saudi Football Season 08/30/2012 UK Ultra SloMo specialist Editec has won a contract to supply I-Movix Ultra SloMo equipment, along with technical backup, for the new season of Saudi Premier League coverage.Continue reading.

Sherlock - Behind the Scenes: Vatican Cameos, Alan Rickman, and the Phantom Camera 08/27/2012 It’s one of the most memorable moments in A Scandal in Belgravia. On realising the safe in Irene’s flat is booby trapped, Sherlock yells out a ‘safe word’ that he and John have decided on as an alert to take immediate evasive action: the canon-referencing “Vatican Cameos!” The scene then decends into a slow motion ballet as our heroes disarm the nefarious CIA agents. But how was this stunning imagery captured? Continue reading.

Shark Week: Inside the Greatest Shot of All Time 08/21/2012 by Mandi Bierly Last night, Discovery counted down its top 25 ‘Best Bites,’ or camera shots, of all time. No. 1 on that list: The aerial view of a great white’s Polaris breach in South Africa dubbed “The Impossible Shot” in a special that kicked off this year’s 25th anniversary Shark Week last Sunday. This shot was more than just cool: Continue reading.

Shark Week 2012: 'Air Jaws Apocalypse' PHOTOS Capture Amazing Great White Breaches 08/14/2012 For "Air Jaws Apocalypse," part of Shark Week 2012, filmmaker Jeff Kurr got close to the action off Seal Island in South Africa. The island, known for its ubiquitous white shark population, is prime turf for studying and photographing the majestic predators.

A Galloping City Captured in Slow Motion 08/13/2012 THERE are moments in history when everything interesting seems to take place indoors: clandestine meetings, documents being signed, objects and discoveries being made in private studios and ateliers. The past year, however, saw a different moment, in which plazas were occupied and protests and revolutions unfolded in the streets. Public space was activated — which might partially explain why James Nares’s “STREET,” at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, feels particularly relevant at this moment.

Shark Week 2012: 'Air Jaws Apocalypse' PHOTOS Capture Amazing Great White Breaches 08/13/2012 For "Air Jaws Apocalypse," part of Shark Week 2012, filmmaker Jeff Kurr got close to the action off Seal Island in South Africa. The island, known for its ubiquitous white shark population, is prime turf for studying and photographing the majestic predators.

Shark Week: 25 Years of Celebrating and Protecting the Ocean's Most Feared Predator 08/10/2012 Advancements in camera technology have allowed producers to slow down the footage and portray the sharks in greater detail. This year, Kurr's "Air Jaws Apocalypse" employs a camera called "Phantom," which shoots at 1,000 frames per second. Continue reading.

Camera Company Makes it Snappy 08/10/2012 One of the unsung heroes of a gold-bedaubed Olympics is a filming technology company from Bedford UK. The cameras that have produced some sensational slo-mo images have been provided by Vision Research Ltd, based at the Bedford i-Lab. Continue reading.

Slow it Down with the Phantom M320S 08/07/2012 Let’s be honest, watching things happen in ultra-slow motion is pretty spectacular. It doesn’t have to be an explosion or crash, with slow motion even water boiling can be eventful. Vision Research’s Phantom Cameras are the forerunner of slow motion cameras. Continue reading.

See Why Fire Tennis Should Be an Olympic Sport 08/06/2012 In The Slow Mo Guys’ latest video, the wacky duo introduces us to Fire Tennis, serving up what they’re calling a “more entertaining version of tennis.”

NBC Launches New Educational Video Series About the Summer Olympics 07/25/2012 ...In many of the videos, the engineering is explained by capturing the athletes’ movements with a state-of-the-art, high-speed Phantom camera, which has the ability to capture movement at rates of up to 10,000 frames per second. Science of the Summer Olympics

The BRZ: Yeah, It's That Hot 07/05/2012 It seems a little excessive. A street art-style installation ad that singed Montreal’s Boulevard Saint-Laurent the weekend of the Grand Prix; an “enormously expensive” holographic cover ad on the face of every issue of Toronto alternative weekly mag The Grid. Continue reading.

A PopSci Fourth of July: Blowing Things Up in Extreme Slow Motion 07/05/2012 Happy Fourth! We've resurrected a highly festive video from our archive to get you in the holiday spirit. The Phantom line of ultra-high-speed video cameras have held PopSci's rapt attention even before the v12 model won our Best of What's New Award in 2008. So what better way to celebrate our nation's independence than aiming a Phantom v641 from New Jersey's Vision Research at all manner of explosives, resulting in high-definition footage of fireworks going off at a glorious 2,000 frames per second? Continue reading.

FutureSPORT Preview: Next-Generation High-Speed Cameras Hit the Market 07/02/2012 In just a few short years, high-speed cameras have been elevated from a luxury item used on only the most high-profile sports productions to a commonplace, even necessary tool used in everything from an RSN’s regular-season baseball game to a major network’s A game. At SVG’s FutureSPORT event on May 23, a panel of leading high-speed–camera vendors will address this rapidly changing segment of the sports-production industry. Continue reading

High-Speed Cameras Continue To See Gains 06/29/2012 The demand for cameras that can record images at more than 300 frames per second (fps) have become a market in recent years: a number of manufacturers have taken cameras originally built to analyze rocket launches and turned them into tools to analyze athletic performance. But, for all the improvements, some challenges remain in terms of product design, and those challenges were the subject of a panel discussion at last week’s SVG FutureSPORT Summit in New York. Continue reading.

Phantom v1610 to be Used in US Open Golf Championship Telecast 06/28/2012 NBC Sports’ coverage of the U.S. Open golf championship featured the latest advance from Inertia Unlimited: the Vision Research v1610, capable of shooting 18,500 frames per second in HD and up to 68,500 frames per second at a reduced resolution. Continue reading.

Slow-Mo Video: How Food is Eaten 06/27/2012 Saveur assistant editor Anna Stockwell is a woman of many talents -- she cooked a whole goose last year -- but when we brought the Phantom v642 super-slow-motion super-camera over to the Saveur office, she was on her lunch break. So we just captured this footage of her and her apple. Continue reading and video the video.

New Featurette Looks at Filming Phantom Camera Slow-Motion for "Dredd 3D" Considering it's an action film produced since The Matrix, that there are a few (possibly many) slow-motion sequences in Pete Travis's Dredd 3D shouldn't surprise anyone. When used right it's an excellent tool to help the viewer fully grasp the gravity of a situation and understand exactly what's happening where. In the hands of the right director it ceases to be a gimmick, and so it'll be interesting to see where Dredd 3D falls on that scale. To give us some clue, Lionsgate has released a featurette on the film's slow-mo scenes and how they were filmed. Continue reading.