Following their recent successful application during the Oxford and Cambridge Boat
Race, Eyeheight colour correctors returned to the forefront of British sports on Sunday
21 April, deployed during coverage of the 2013 London Marathon.
The contest began with a 30-second silence in honour of the victims of the Boston
Marathon bombings. A total of 34,278 runners completed the 26 mile main course,
watched along the route by more than 700,000 spectators. This year’s events were
won by Tsegaye Kebede (Men’s Elite Race), Priscah Jeptoo (Women’s Elite Race), Kurt
Fearnley (Men’s Wheelchair Race) and Tatyana McFadden (Women’s Wheelchair Race).
“The London Marathon is one of the largest outside broadcast events in the British
sports calendar,” explains Eyeheight’s Sales Director, Martin Moore. “It is challenge for
the contestants and would be a nightmare for the television colourists unless they
had the right production tools. Six CC-2M channels housed in two chassis were used
to ensure consistent colour matching between traditional cameras at fixed locations
plus a variety of minicams following the action. The CC-2Ms were chosen for their
proven quality, ease of use and compactness.”
Designed to handle 525/625, 720 and 1080 line content, Eyeheight’s CC-2M colour
corrector is an auto-sensing system allowing independent real-time adjustment of
red, green and blue component levels, master gain, lift, gamma and hue. A preview
output provides a configurable split screen showing the processed and unprocessed
image. Up to six CC-2M colour correction cards can be housed in a 1 rack unit FB-9E
chassis and operated from an FP-9C control panel with self-legending illuminated
pushbuttons.
