Takes A Lickin’ And Keeps On Tickin’
This is the Vinten ‘Heron’ studio crane and a Marconi Mark VIII plumbicon camera at the CBC studios in Montreal in the early to mid 70s. After a long stay in storage, it was returned to service last year.
One That Never Made It RCA once disclosed that they had spent over $200,000,000 developing color television. I don’t doubt it…it was expensive work to do and this Tri Color Vidicon tube is proof. Here in this photo from April of 1953, Dr. Paul Weimer of RCA Labs poses with the new tube idea and […]
By far, the most informative collection of information I have ever seen on early telephony and broadcasting. Without AT&T’s help, there never could have been radio, or television networks with such immediacy and reach. Until satellite communications, Ma Bell was the only way to connect, and overall, they did a great job, as did Mark […]
Early Dumont Cameras: Configuration 2 Unlike the RCA cameras, the Dumont Iconoscope cameras had electronic viewfinders which were side mounted. This called for more equipment at the camera and this is one configuration of how that was done. I suspect the larger box is the camera control unit and the smaller one, the power supply. […]
45 Years Ago Today…Apollo 11 Heads For The Moon: Day 2 Here is the second of eight daily articles written for Eyes Of A Generation by Jodie Peeler on this historic event. Enjoy and share! _____________________________________________________ On July 17, 1969 Apollo 11 was coasting toward its historic rendezvous with the Moon. With all the efforts […]
I think this is a fairly early model of Heron. In the later models you could raise and lower the jib arm with a foot control instead of the hand operated twist grip.
Can the camera do Hi-def?
Not that one, Charles . . . .
C’est familier je vais regarder dans mes vieilles photos