Trained with Howie at several stages. I could say ABC TV Darwin led the way in robotics as in the 80s, we had robots driven by the Technical Producer in the Control room. We did extraordinary stuff with ordinary equipment.
Whole space technology still used today was created within 30 years. From Werner von Braun first experiments to designing Soyuz rockets designed 1966 and still in use. Almost nothing remarkable has changed after it. Progress, indeed.
The great Sony DXC3000. Back in 1987, one of my colleagues hooked up a power lead with the polarity reversed. POP! Had to go back to Sony for repair and it cost a small fortune. We'd only had the thing a couple of weeks as well. Became an old friend and was used everyday for the next five years.
Those 'monstrosities' were beautiful pieces of electronic equipment in a wonderful industry. The Marconi Mk VII shown in this video was large, but it produced very good pictures and although not popular in general purpose studios, it was used in the relatively static environment of a News studio. It was also a fair export success for Marconi to the USA, where large cameras were the norm. So; one man's monster is another man's beautiful woman. Oh, let me just add, the robotic peds., although used by the BBC in the News studios since the 1960's, were not used elsewhere until relatively recently and have been successful in keeping perfectly good camera operators out of work. However, the Network/Station accountant is happy. I will add that I have no connection to the TV industry other than a tech. interest; my comments regarding machines taking human jobs are from a Societal point of view.
CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), in the US, used a lot of Marconis. In the early 1950s, there was bitter rivalry between RCA (Radio Corporation of America) and CBS over which color TV system the US would adopt. CBS lost, and as a result, it stopped using RCA TV cameras and equipment as soon as it could. The Marconi Mark VII had a 4.5 inch image orthicon pick up tube and produced an excellent picture. Most importantly, for CBS, it was not an RCA product. The famous appearance by the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, was recorded using Marconi cameras. CBS used Marconis until about 1965-66, when all the US TV networks began seriously converting to color.
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Yes, I had twelve or so of them with a mix of Varotal V, Varotal XIV and Angenieux lens - a mix of type A and type B's - I then had a few EMI2001's and later Philips LDK5's, Hitachi SK97 & SK970's to name a few - I sold the LDK5 heads of to Television New Zealand to keep their channels going back in the 90's - I don't have any tubes left now though
You had twelve Mk.7s' ????? They weren't great cameras but served the purpose at a time when the EMI2001 was still under development. Do you still have 48 Plumbicon tubes?
@GanEdenVideo I had a studio and as they became available, it was a sensible thing to get them -not the most reliable of cameras and varied somewhat in their picture quality - some were scrapped for spares.
The Marconi colour camera - a MKVII which they say they used from 1975 is actually a FOUR tube camera not three - there were tubes for red, green, blue and luminence. How do I know? - Because in the 80's I actually owned about twelve of them! they date back to the mid 60's and were first produced with nuvistor head amplifiers which were later replaced by FET's - also the later cameras had fans in the tops.
Amazing presentation, I've been working for TV networks and post production since 1979, as support Engineer I lerned from Quad VTRs and Plumbicon tube cameras till now. I love tech history, congratulations and thanks a lot for this video. Adair Comarú.
