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chris319

What is the oldest TV camera you've ever used, either as a camera operator or as a video operator/maintenance?

We had three RCA TK-15 vidicon cameras when I was at San Francisco State University from 1973 - 1978. It was a gray box full of tube electronics with a lens turret which took C-mount lenses. One camera had a zoom lens; a push-rod controlled the zoom and you focused it by turning a knob which was secured to one end of the push-rod. Exposure was controlled at an operator control panel by varying the target voltage. The beam-current control was used to clip the whites by means of beam starvation. Being vidicons the image was full of lag and smear on moving objects.

Jim

TK 31 FIELD Camera, TK 21 film chain camera

chris319

Quote from: Jim on Nov 27, 2022, 04:57 PMTK 31 FIELD Camera

Where and for whom did you operate this TK-31?

Jim

KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa, late 1950s