No Doubt About It.
What we have here in Studio 33 at Television City are Sony EFP (Electronic Field Production) kits. The cameras are most likely Sony 1500 HDs. They are using the Sony Large Viewfinder Adapter build up kit, model HDLA1507US. For more on the technology, go to the link. Thanks to Father Bob yet again for the video.
Drew decides to stand on the base of camera 2 while the contestants bid on a price (3/16/09)
This amazing photo is from October 1945…12 months before the introduction of the RCA TK30. The camera at the bottom has an experimental Image Orthicon tube in it and is being compared to RCA’s Orthicon camera. WWII ended September 1945 and as a treat, a rodeo was staged Madison Square Gardens by RCA for the […]
1926-2016…Celebrating 90 Years Of Talking Pictures Thanks to Western Electric’s Vitaphone technology, moving pictures with sound became a commercial success, but the story does not start with “The Jazz Singer”, and it doesn’t even start with the spoken word. Believe it or not, the very first sound with film efforts were thought of as a […]
TeleTales #89…The Early Days Of WMAR, Baltimore These are the new WMAR mobile units in 1948, shortly after they became the third CBS Television affiliate. Up till then, CBS only had WCBS in New York and WCAU in Philadelphia. By comparison, NBC had at least six affiliates, and by the end of the year would […]
October 13, 1957…A Red Letter Day For Videotape & TV History The first 4.5 minutes of the attached video tells the story and includes comparison shots of the videotape and kinescope version of the oldest surviving, intact videotape program, “The Edsel Show”. Thanks to our friend Kris Trexler’s love of cars, his interest in classic […]
If camera people are used in a skit, do they get paid extra?
Is this the norm now to use a field camera with a build up kit for studio use? (Assuming a field camera is just as good as a studio camera?)