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Catch this week's episode of Sunday Night Baseball as the reigning World Series Champions, St. Louis Cardinals, go to beautiful southern California to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers. [more…]

Watch Sunday, May 13, as the visiting Anaheim Angels come to Arlington to take on the Texas Rangers in this American League West showdown. You will be seeing all of the ultra slow motion highlights through a NAC Hi-Motion II camera. [more…]

This week's edition of Sunday Night Baseball will take place in our country's capital as the Philadelphia Phillies take on the Washington Nationals. Don't miss all of the ultra slow motion highlights this week! [more…]

NAC Hi-Motion II cameras to capture the Championship match of Chelsea v Liverpool in the FA cup final at Wembley Stadium Saturday May 5th. [more…]

Sports Illustrated's Golf.com does a segment on the perfect swing of the rising LPGA star Belen Mozo. It is through the use of a NAC Memrecam camera viewers can see this perfect swing in ultra-slow motion, at its most beautiful and elegant form. [more…]

Fletcher Chicago rents out two NAC Hi-Motion II cameras to ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball in a contest between the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Texas Rangers. Don't miss it! [more…]

ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball between the New York Yankees and The Boston Red Sox Live from Fenway Park! Make sure to catch the game, and check out the use of two NAC Hi-Motion II cameras. [more…]

While some sports broadcasting channels will be showing their baseball games through the lens of lower quality cameras, ESPN will be broadcasting their Sunday Night Baseball game through the lens of a NAC Hi-Motion II camera. In fact, there will be two of the highest quality and most technologically advanced ultra slow motion cameras at every game this season! This will enable viewers to see instant ultra slow motion replays, allowing them to "capture the most minute of details in a game of inches." [more…]

ESPN made a big splash in the offseason with the blockbuster addition of Terry Francona to its Sunday Night Baseball booth. However, the arrival of the boisterous former Boston Red Sox manager is not the only change for Sunday Night Baseball this season: ESPN has also added a host of new production elements, including a second RF handheld camera, a second high-speed camera system, a battalion of GoPro miniature cameras, and possible use of "hot and cold zones" in its K Zone pitch-tracking system. [more…]

NAC Image Technology is pleased to announce an agreement with John Denenfeld of Velocity Dynamics to distribute NAC products throughout Canada... John brings 25+ years of experience in the broadcast and industrial high speed video camera production markets to this new partnership. [more…]

TNT’s production of the NBA All-Star Weekend from the Amway Center in Orlando featured new toys, enhancements to old favorites, and core production techniques that the network has refined over the years. On hand was the new NAC/Ikegami super-slow-motion camera system, which features three CCD sensors to improve picture performance. [more…]

NAC Image Technology’s Hi-Motion II super-slow motion camera today will make its world-wide debut in style, providing replays for NBC Sports as well as the NFL World Feed during tonight’s broadcast of Super Bowl XLVI from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. But it’s only the beginning of a busy period as Andy Hayford, NAC Image Technology’s international sales manager says 30 of the units will be in the field by April.

The camera did make a debut nationally for a UFC fight on Fox Sports last weekend. Hayford says the camera did so well that it became the main handheld used during the fights.

The complete camera system brings together technology from NAC and Ikegami that couples three CMOS sensors with the high-speed recording functionality. Hayford says the advantage of CMOS is it allows for higher frame rates than CCD sensors which max out at 90 frames per second. Tonight the cameras will operate at 300 fps. [more…]

Among the many sights TV viewers across the country will see during Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVI will be replays of ultra-slow-motion action captured by NAC Image Technologies’ new Hi-Motion II ultra-motion camera system.

These ‘hi-motion’ cameras are unique in using a three-CMOS-sensor camera head with built-in memory to deliver greater than ten-times-speed (“10x”) for dramatic ultra-slow-motion playback of HD sports action. [more…]

Fletcher Chicago will be providing four of the new NAC Hi-Motion II Ultra Slow Motion Digital cameras at this year’s Super Bowl in Indianapolis. The Hi-Motion II camera, developed in cooperation with Ikegami, is a dual-format 1080i/720p system that can provide simultaneous output of live normal-speed video and ultra-slow-motion replay video, and can be used as both a “traditional” HD portable/field camera and an ultra-motion HD camera. [more…]

Football fans around the world will be awed by unbelievable slow motion replay imagery during this Sunday's telecast of Super Bowl XLVI between the New York Giants and New England Patriots on NBC! Fletcher Chicago will be providing four (4) of the new NAC Hi-Motion II™ Ultra Slow Motion Digital cameras to capture the dramatic field action at this year's Super Bowl. [more…]

Acclaimed Three-CMOS Ultra-Slow-Motion Cameras Are Among the Dozen Purchased by Fletcher Camera's Rental Division for Major-League Sports Coverage, Starting with the Super Bowl

Among the many thrilling sights TV viewers will see during this Sunday's telecast of Super Bowl XLVI will be replays of ultra-slow-motion football action captured in crystal clarity and fine detail by the new Hi-Motion II ultra-motion camera system. Made by NAC Image Technology, a world leader in the design and manufacture of advanced imaging and motion-analysis systems, these Hi-Motion cameras are unique in using a three-CMOS-sensor camera head with built-in memory to deliver greater than ten-times-speed (“10x”) for dramatic ultra-slow-motion playback of HD sports action. The new Hi-Motion II camera, developed in cooperation with Ikegami, is a dual-format 1080i/720p system that can provide simultaneous output of live normal-speed video and ultra-slow-motion replay video, and can be used as both a “traditional” HD portable/field camera and an ultra-motion HD camera that can work side-by-side with other Ikegami HD cameras on production trucks to deliver the exceptional imagery today's HDTV sports viewers demand. The Hi-Motion II camera is sold and supported by Ikegami. [more…]

The lastest member of the new HX Family of high-speed digital camera products, the Memrecam HX-3, is the ultimate high-speed camera - providing the highest resolutions, highest frame rates, and best light sensitivity - all in a compact package weighing just over 12 pounds! [more…]

The Hi-Motion product family has the only HD Ultra Slow Motion camera system employing 3-chip image capture technology. The Hi-Motion allows the user the flexibility of easily changing and recording speed from normal to 10x or more, while also allowing for the instant playback of previosly captured ultra slow motion imagery.

Since its development in 2003, the Hi-Motion has been embraced by sports broadcasters around the world, having been featured in the Olympic Games (summer and winter), the FIFA World Cup (Germany and South Africa), and the Asian Games, as well as professional golf, tennis, cricket, boxing, rugby, volleyball, basketball, hockey, baseball, swimming, diving, equestrian events, motor racing and much, much more. The Hi-Motion is on show at SPORTELMonaco 2011 at the NAC Image Technology booth. [more…]

NAC Image Technology is pleased to announce the appointment of Doug Squires as the new Regional Sales Manager for the Southeastern United States. Doug is responsible for direct sales of NAC products in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. With over 25 years experience in the imaging field, the youthful industry veteran, will be based in Charlotte, NC. [more…]

NAC Image Technology announces the expansion of its Sports Broadcast Business Unit. NAC is pleased to announce the appointment of Andy Hayford as International Sales Manager for NAC Hi-Motion Products effective immediately. His responsibility will be for the promotion and sale of NAC's Ultra Slow Motion Sports Broadcast camera systems in Europe, the Americas, Australia, and other geographic territories. [more…]

NAC Image Technology Inc. is honored to be selected to receive an Emmy award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the 2009/2010 Technical Engineering Awards. The Emmy is awarded for work in “HD Super Slow Motion Systems for acquisition, recording, and playback in Broadcast, Entertainment and Sports Productions.” The award is in recognition of NAC's innovations in sports broadcasting and further acknowledges leadership position of NAC Image Technology Inc. in the development of super slow motion digital camera systems. [more...]

Due to their ease-of-use and excellent image quality, NAC cameras are favored heavily for slow motion replays!

Prestigious sporting events around the world continue to look to NAC High Speed Cameras to provide viewers with incredible slow motion images. During the recent World Cup action in South Africa, a total of five (5) NAC High Speed Cameras (4 main cameras and 1 backup) were used at four separate venues: Johannesurg (Ellis Park), Nelspruit, Polokwane and Tshwane/Pretoria. Set on tripods next to the goals on each end of the field, the cameras used 100 x zoom lenses to capture plays with incredible clarity. The unparalleled light sensitivity of the cameras provided spectacular images in bright sunlight, shade and under lights.

Incredible slow motion images can be seen on the new, amazing eleven (11) part LIFE series on the Discovery Channel beginning March 21. The LIFE series is a sequel to the PLANET EARTH series which featured the amazing places on the planet while the new LIFE series features every animal group imaginable on every continent! The series has been four years in the making and features never before seen images of animal life The high-speed cameras are able to capture behaviours previously impossible to see with film cameras and allows the viewer to see the incredible slow motion shots – the detail and insight of capturing animal movements that are too fast for the human eye to see – then slowed down for the viewer is absolutely unbelievable! See some of the previews of the LIFE series at:

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/life/

…and be sure to catch the series on television every Sunday night for an astonishing view of the earth’s Animal Kingdom!

Due to their ease-of-use and excellent image quality, NAC cameras are favored heavily for slow motion replays!

NAC High-Speed Cameras continue setting the bar for their incredibly detailed slow motion images in coverage of prestigious sporting events around the world! A total of 8 NAC High Speed Cameras are working on the Vancouver Games beginning February 12 and going thru February 28. In Whistler, the cameras will be recording both men and women’s Alpine Skiing and Cross Country events at Whistler Olympic Park. In Vancouver, the cameras will be used to capture action at the Speed Skating competition at Richmond Oval, Curling at the Olympic Centre and Ice Hockey at two separate venues: Canada Hockey Place and the University of British Columbia Winter Sports Centre.