The Ikegami HK312 E
Here’s Ted Koppel with the triax version of the HK312 at ABC’s Washington news studio around 1986. I think the HK312 D model was a triax camera as well and may have still had the dark brown viewfinder like the A model. The big bulge on the side is the triax box.
Here’s a fantastic 2 minute time lapse look at ‘Saturday Night Live’. This was shot a on April 5 of this year and features Pharrell Williams singing “Happy” and Anna Kendrick as the host. Remember that? I was there a month later on May 3rd. My seat was on the floor, front row left as […]
Hot off the presses! Here is the 3rd part of Jame O’Neal’s great series on collections and museums! Enjoy and pass it along! https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/keeping-early-television39s-legacy-alive Source
The Monkeys! Did You Know This? The Beatles movie ‘Hard Day’s Night’ was the catalyst that brought the idea for this show to life. They already had the idea for the show and originally thought about using ‘The Lovin Spoonful’ band to play the lead rolls, but they signed a record deal before the show […]
Instant Replay…New Information + The Birth Of A & B Roll News A week or so back, I did a story on the early days of live news on CBS. I had thought that the ‘CBS Television News With Douglas Edwards’ had always come from the Grand Central Studios, but it didn’t. It did move […]
This was the first camera I work with in 1981. When I started my 25 yrs career in Television.
Yes you were correct on the triax extension on the side. In LA we had many of these cameras with ringing in the power supplies. It took a lot of cap changing in the power supplies to correct the problem.