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Howdy Gang,<br><br>
I had the pleasure of cutting my 1V P-P "shadrack" teeth on RCA
TK-42s at WMVS-TV, Channel 10, at MATC in Milwaukee (Milwaukee Area
Technical College). I recall them being <u>monsters</u> to move around
the studio, but very simple to "shade". Granted, the talent
could light cigarettes in mid-air with all the 1k lamps we had
going!<br><br>
I also remember the red "ped up - ped down" toggle switch on
the pan/tilt handle. Those cameras were so heavy they used a motor to
perform the move. If I'm not mistaken, when they replaced 'em with lead
counterbalanced Vinten peds they sent the old ones to the auto repair
side of MATC. They used 'em to build car hoists! ;-)<br><br>
Best regards,<br><br>
John<br><br>
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VR-1200, VR-2000, Editec, the VPR-2 and the VPR-80<br><br>
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At 03:29 PM 7/18/2009, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Yes, it does look like
everything is clipped somewhat...although Walter in the studio shot
doesn't look too bad.<br>
IO cameras had a pretty forgiving knee themselves....no artificial
processing circuitry required. I don't really remember looking at a
grayscale chart on a TK-60 or 11, but I don't remember them having any
real problems with blacks....and we certainly weren't concerned with
noise all that much.<br>
I think the advent of color....the TK-41 and later....plumbicon
cameras, which had no real knee on their own, made getting the proper
exposure a little more universal.<br>
And Chris just reminded me in his post that the early b/w IO cameras did
not have iris servos....so you had to light your scenes consistently and
were stuck with your initial f stop. I don't remember ever telling
the camera operator to "reach around and stop that thing down a
little!". <br>
We did "ride the gain" for minor corrections however, as Chris
pointed out.<br>
Guy<br><br>
C. Park Seward wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi Guy,<br><br>
Seems like the entire dub was overexposed or just recorded with the gain
too high. Look at the commercials and see how overexposed they look. You
know the commercials (the cash register) were not overexposed!<br><br>
Were IO cameras overexposed to make up for poor black
reproduction?<br><br>
Best,<br>
Park<br><br>
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