You won’t believe the paint job on these 1947 French cameras! The build is pretty interesting too! Notice that the viewfinder is built into the pedestal column. Thanks to Brock Whaley in Ireland for sending this.
Here is the one of two very rare lenses donated to the Pavek Museum…this one is a 27 element Zoomar long lens used at CBS Television City (the other lens is in the next post down on this page). Although Steve does not have the full history on these 2 great rarities, this one has […]
The Answer To A Chicken & Egg Question On Video Tape… As I wrote and posted these 3M stories on video tape’s development, I kept wondering how Ampex could develop their machines if 3M only joined the party the day before the debut. If 3M didn’t make videotape before the debut, then who did? Here’s […]
Tour Of Duty…Remembering Roy Holm, NBC Burbank Last week when the ‘Elvis’ comeback special story ran here, Roy Holm was pictured in that photo array. Our friend David Crosthwait posted more pictures of Roy that I am sharing here. He was one of NBC’s top cameramen and a multiple EMMY winner. More on the photos. […]
Exclusive: ESPN’s “Fly Cam” At BCS Championship Game If any one wondered how the fantastic flying shots that took us from outside the Rose Bowl to inside in one move were done, here’s your answer. Thanks to our friend Chuck Pharis, who was doing video at the game, these are photos of the Fly Cam […]
definitely the strangest cameras I’ve ever seen!
France decided to go with 819 lines a year later.
Exactly Brock. 819 lines at a rate of 25 fps. ( 220 volts 50 hertz )
Work on SECAM began in 1956. The technology was ready by the end of the fifties, but this was too soon for a wide introduction. Initially, a version of SECAM for the French 819-line television standard was devised and tested, but not introduced. Following a pan-European agreement to introduce color TV only in 625 lines, France had to start the conversion by switching over to a 625-line television standard, which happened at the beginning of the 1960s with the introduction of a second network.
Obviously, not an RCA turnkey operation.
The 819 line channels took up 14 MHz of bandwidth. And that with AM sound. Their VHF channels were not adjacent, but overlapped in frequency. 14 MHz of I.F. bandwidth made a home receiver very expensive. Six or seven stages of I.F. amps were not uncommon. The audio from the former French channel 2 (41-55 MHz) was often heard by me in Florida during the sunspot maximum of the 1970’s, along with sound from 405 line BBC-1.