<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>That's interesting, I hadn't thought of that.</div><div><br></div><div>It does remind me of this Frank Beacham article about Betacam and Orson Wells:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.beachamjournal.com/journal/orson-welles-and-his-brief-passionate-love-affair-with-betacam.html">http://www.beachamjournal.com/journal/orson-welles-and-his-brief-passionate-love-affair-with-betacam.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>I think he falsely claims that the Betac<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;">am was "The first one-piece camera and recorder ever made). I believe Panasonic's M-Format "Recam" beat them.</span></font></div><div><br></div><meta charset="utf-8"><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:44 PM, <a href="mailto:DCFWTX@aol.com">DCFWTX@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size="2" ptsize="10" family="SANSSERIF" face="Arial" lang="0">Yes, you may be right. I forgot about that possibility.<br>
Bill Hogan? There was another truck running around that parked itself at the studios with Betacam or other similar setups. <br>
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In a message dated 1/30/2010 6:59:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, <a href="mailto:park@videopark.com">park@videopark.com</a> writes:<br>
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<blockquote type="CITE" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; position: static; z-index: auto; ">Wasn't "Golden Girls" one of the first shows to use Betacam for mastering? Bill (forgot his last name) supplied the system. That would mean a softer picture with the poor luminance response of Betacam (non-SP).<br>
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Park<br>
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