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Superbowl through 42 different eyes

Posted January 31st, 2007. Filed under Uncategorized

This year CBS is using 42 High Definition Cameras at the Superbowl and over 500 staffers. Broadcasting and Cable reports “CBS will have 21 hard (or wired) cameras, three cabled handheld cameras, two wireless handheld cameras, one wireless Steadycam camera, one CableCam camera, two robotic goalpost cameras, two robotic coaches cameras two talent-booth cameras, one unmanned camera for inside beauty shots, one robotic camera atop a tower at CBS-owned WFOR Miami for outside shots, two clock cameras and a spare hard camera.” They will also deploy one slow motion “Phanton” camera shoots over 3000 frames per second allowing a player’s motion to be broken down in minute detail.

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  1. Jennifer says:

    No wonder Super Bowl commercials are so expensive!

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