{"id":778,"date":"2004-07-31T14:04:46","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T14:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/07\/fancy_sports_ca\/"},"modified":"2004-07-31T14:04:46","modified_gmt":"2004-07-31T14:04:46","slug":"fancy_sports_ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/fancy_sports_ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Fancy Sports Camerawork"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s Broadcast magazine has a double-page spread on something very close to my heart – those fancy camera techniques that are used in sport.
\nSince Broadcast’s website<\/a> is totally subscription only, here are their top ten:
\n1. Virtual Spectator – Basically all the graphics tricks used in coverage of the WRC. It all involves GPS, computer graphics and minicams.<\/i>
\n2. Crash Recording – For use in yachting. The cameras are recording to memory all the time. Then if something exciting happens, a crewmember hits a button and everything that has just happened is committed to a more permament storage.<\/i>
\n3. Super Slow-Mo – As used superbly by C4 in the cricket. Sky have their own version too. 2000 frames a second.<\/i>
\n4. Hawkeye – First cricket, now tennis. Where next for the ball-tracking technology?<\/i>
\n5. Skycam – A camera mounted high on a pair of wires. You do get some very involving views. The French Open employ one as well as the Beeb for the FA Cup Final.<\/i>
\n6. Epsis – The tricks now widely employed in football and many other sports for projecting graphics onto the pitch while the players walk all over them.<\/i>
\n7. Streaming – Er. This is more a delivery mechanism isn’t it? Move along please.<\/i>
\n8. High Definition – Another delivery mechanism. Sky are looking to be first in the UK with this. But we’ll all need new TVs.<\/i>
\n9. Post Cam – The BBC used it during the Six Nations. Strap a remote controlled camera around the foot of a rugby post just above the padding. You get close-up views without getting in the way. Limited potential in other sports though.<\/i>
\n10. I-Ball – Still in development, but basically seems to involve putting 12 cameras inside a ball (say a football), transmitting the images back and combining them to produce a single image “ball’s eye” view, with computers doing the hard work since balls spin a lot etc.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s Broadcast magazine has a double-page spread on something very close to my heart – those fancy camera techniques that are used in sport. Since Broadcast’s website is totally subscription only, here are their top ten: 1. Virtual Spectator – Basically all the graphics tricks used in coverage of the WRC. It all involves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}