Hitachi Saticon Color Video Camera VK C850 (PAL) - Test Footage

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This Hitachi was my first encounter with a video camera as a kid in 1985. It was owned by my Dad´s employer and luckily I was allowed to toy with it quite a lot.
10 years later, in 1995, I picked it up again to shoot some test footage and was positively surprised by the color reproduction it gave. The VK C850 actually looked somehow better than my JVC VHS-C Camcorder (CCD, 1988) even though it was "only" a one-tube Saticon consumer oriented camera. Unfortunately the test footage suffers a bit from low lighting in the home and this tube camera definitely needs light...
It would be great to test this camera today with direct video capture (only VHS back then), but I don´t have access to it anymore.
Anyway I hope this is of interest to somebody.
Recorded in February 1995 on a Grundig VHS Videorecorder.
Transferred using a JVC S-VHS Videorecorder and Canopus ADVC110.
Deinterlaced with MSU Deinterlacer within VirtualDub.
Upscaled to 720p using Lanczos3 to avoid RU-vid downsizing to 480p.

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@MrMetalsound95 3 месяца назад

amazing quality! Just found one of these with separate vcr online and might give it a try

@sirvivor_1974 3 месяца назад

Thank you! Sounds great I hope the camera works fine. Maybe you could manage to record the video from it directly to digital with a capture device? Either way I´d be happy to hear about any results.

@sirvivor_1974 7 месяцев назад

@kiosk7658 Thanks a lot! Considering it was recorded on crappy Standard VHS it turned out quite well. I use a Canopus ADVC-110 to digitize recordings with playback from a JVC S-VHS VCR. The ADVC-110 takes S-VHS or Composite In and delivers a DV-Stream over Firewire. The DV-Stream is captured using ScenalyzerLive (www.scenalyzer.com - free and highly recommended). Then I import the avi-file to Edius (my NLE) and bring back the "superwhite" video-levels delivered by the ADVC-110 with a simple luma curve (109% to 100% IRE or 255 to 235 8 bit value). Thereby you preserve about one stop of dynamic range in the highlights (the waveform monitor is your friend here😀). Then the video is exported as MPEG2 (with the field order changed from "bottom first" to "top first"). I prefer MPEG2 for SD Video as there is no possibility of mix up of the color spaces (all player software or standalone players should correctly play SD MPEG2 files with Rec601 color space as intended, not Rec709) Finally I load the file in VirtualDub and deinterlace it with the MSU Deinterlacer 2.1 filter (excellent deinterlacer). Last step is to load the result in the NLE and upscale the 576p video to 720p using Lanczos 3 interpolation and export as h264 Rec709. Feel free to ask if there are some more questions!