Ingenious construction it is hard to believed there are three tubes in there. The alloy machined case is a work of art, I have an AGEMA 550 Stirling cooled Thermal camera of this era and it is built like a tank, the colour viewfinder is a crt and the resolution is incredible it is less than a inch diagonal and a joy to see. Keep posting.
@@vintagevideo4044 You may find modern scalers like the Retrotink do a better job. Domestic capture cards are generally rubbish and it's better to use a converter/scaler then capture that as HDMI.
Interesting that it had auto-cent as early as 1977. The Sony and Ikegami camera of the time didn't have auto cent. I believe it was the Sony DXC-M3 that had auto-cent in 1983-1984. What's the lens mount? B3? Looks like a Canon lens
That was Philip's first all in one, portable camera, with auto centering, it tells to work better, if all there tubes are like new, with a high output. Yes the lens is Canon, but uses a special Philips mount and connection plug, only for Philips cameras
I use a digital converter, you put standard 625 line video and sound in ,it converts it to 405 line or 240 line and also the original frequency of the aerial signal, so it plugs into the original aerial socket and no retuning is required
A really tough job to adjust and register this camera! On todays modern CCD-camcorders you nearly have no controls at all! Everything can be done automatically!
It's because, 400 lines , is 5Mhz of picture definition, which was the specification of the Pal transmission standard, so that's all it had to do . But I know what you mean about Sony cameras I have some late 3 tube ones and they will do 650 lines though the pal system connected direct to the monitor
Some controls are with the radio controls and the others are under a cover in front of the system standard switch, when I do these videos I try to do them live, so you can see how long it takes to come on then it just depends what's on television at the time , I never use recorded pictures
Other enthusiasts make digital converters that convert 625 line television to any standard, you want and then you, just connect it to the aerial socket
EMI 2005 i have 3 full restored here in my collection in brazil they was from tv iguaçu canal 4 curitiba i restores all cameras with new transistor and new capacitors also 3 NOS plumbicon tubes the picture is superb with LED indoor lights in my test room
Something people often forget is the fact that, in Britain at least, a big reason for the government to spend so much money on TV when almost nobody watched it was so they had a reason to work on CRTs for radar without it looking suspicious.
heh kinda funny how the little dirt specks on the CRT make little streaks of colour a few cm to the right. But hey - that means you don't need a special tape to do the alignment! Oh wait. You have one. (and again - kinda crazy - it's like S-Video, but on FILM!)
The main thing with camera picture quality, is how good are the pick up tubes, this camera has a very good set of tubes, so with careful set up, it can give a picture quality, that almost matches a DVD
I have to say absolutely outstanding, to bring this camera back into operational condition is amazing, how many hours has this taken and where did you start
I generally start, with the power supply and see how good some capacitors are , if ok then power everything up and then, sort out the faults which are present until, I get a good picture, which can take a lot of hours
@@vintagevideo4044 I take my hat off to you patients, outstanding work I love seeing those devices brought back to life , so you have any Link Electronics cameras
That old technology absolutely fascinates me. And to think of the intellect required to engineer such things. Generations of geniuses improving other geniuses work.
Very interesting NBN 3 (Newcastle Australia) got a mention ... I learnt TV craft with a few of these - late 70's. Moved on to making hundreds of TV commercials for an Ad agency with them, but not behind the camera. With the right pedestal it was a great camera use. And the quality was amazing ...Thank you EMI
@@vintagevideo4044 - mate - you have the camera ... the support looks OK - just dont point it left or you'll break the window ! ? Find one of these - www.smecc.org/vinten/fulmar.jpg You have a piece of broadcasting history, Mitch
This is basicaly different technology and gvives (as for my eyes) advantage in clariry in fast moving objects. Just like traditional movies. in cinema except here it is decoded to electronic signal to transfer to TV, which has of course to recreate the picture,. It has only 400 lines but t is not deminished during movement.
I cannot even remotely understand how one could recreate a chrominance signal from a pattern of vertical lines printed on film. It's crazy, I'll have to search and understand.
You are right about, it's licensed by CBS, but you are then free to do your own designs, like Hitachi did, the curved gate is stainless steel, the flying spot scanning tube is Hitachi designed, plus many other things
I understand how Transverse and Helical scanning for recording video and audio onto magnetic tape works. However, I'd never heard of this machine before, and I don't really understand the method being used here. Can someone enlighten me?
EVR is really a film format, is printed on micro film, type film for cheapness, and even the colour films are printed on micro film that has no colour in it. They were made at one dedicated facility in the UK. So the EVR players, are really a film scanner, the sound is magnetic, the original idea was a cheap home system, but the complicated method of making the films, meant they were more expensive than planned. So not a huge amount were sold. But as the smaller formats of video tape at that time were not very compatible between machines, EVR had a few years life. Before things like the Philips N1500 VCR came along and could record and was very compatible between machines
@@vintagevideo4044 Thanks for the information. I gives me a clearer understanding of the system, and the method it uses to record video and audio. It reminds me of the rope memory utilized in the Apollo Guidance Computer. An efficient way of fulfilling the task required. However, a dead-end in terms of wide-spread adoption elsewhere.
It is similar to 8mm film, but because a film projector mechanism was seen as to expensive to use, they did not use sprocket holes in the film, that's why used the flying spot technique and the colour films were printed on black and white white film, with the pattern of lines beside the picture to be decoded in to colour for the picture, its is elaborate, but all done to keep the price low of the player and films
@@fernanr8377 The EV-1500E used a system which worked, sort of. However, it was ultimately a dead-end. There much superior methods of recording video already in existence. They just needed to be in a packaged in a format convenient for home use.
Not even close to broadcast quality. This was developed by CBS in the US for the home market. But in the end it was only used for a few years for company PR videos and sales training. It was actually rubbish because over time the film just gets more and more scratched.
@@sidecarcnI believe CBS Laboratories (developers of EVR) actually did develop a broadcast version of EVR called BEVR (Broadcast EVR). I'm not sure if it was ever commercially released like EVR was though.
Utterly incredible!! I've never seen one of these before. To have the luminance and chrominance separated on the film is astonishing. Thank you for posting this!
