Love Letter To JVC KY-210 - Part 2 

Everyone should keep two perfectly good JVC Camcorders in the fridge

That light smearing is so cool. I've loved it for years. Didn't know it was specifically about hysteresis, just knew there was some retention. You see it on older TV shows in scenes lit by candlelight too. Of course in professional environments they try to minimise but sometimes you can only push your set lighting so far without disrupting your atmosphere.

At 5'10" that's a "times two" lever available on most B4 type lenses. All of the lenses we have here have them (even wide angles). Only cheaper "industrial" lenses do without them. At 8' the gain switch will give you the equivalent of 2 or 4 stops of extra light (at the expense of grain) - the doubler will take away 2 stops of light.

Ya know, i bet an issue with the prism/image splitting mechanism would cause similar issues to your problems. although i agree its most likely electrical

I know exactly what happened. It isn't you. The thin polarizer material on the glass prism in front of the tube has separated and is at an inappropriate angle. Same failure mode in old single side play Laserdisc players

I have this video camera too! I bought it at a thrift store for $20 with the hard case. The battery is deader than dead, but after a while, I bought an ac power brick and a 4pin XLR cord. So far it works. Im gonna use your advice and get a RCA adapter and plug this into my VCR to test it out. Thanks for the in-depth video, I didn't know about half the features on this thing!

Reminds me of a Sony DXC-M3 camera we used to shoot with that would occasionally decide to just green shift on us, and we were never quite sure whether it was inside the camera or the cable, because it would always "fix itself" while we were troubleshooting, and we'd get right back to shooting video! Apparently the M3s were known for that.

Hi, I´m binging through your videos - and although I realize this is an old one I just wanted to give you a hint about that white balance. You´re not supposed to flip that switch just pointing the camera to whatever is in front. You´re should hold a white or grey sheet of paper in front of it filling the field of view. Then correct aperture (so that it isn´t too bright) and then flip the switch.

I was very surprised at the quality, very nice and that is nice glass too. That always makes a huge difference.

5 years later and we’re still waiting for the explanation on video tube camera effects Edit: please make a video explaining video tube technology I really wanna know how the light tails happen

Thank you for sharing.

Take a look at the Nikon Nikkor 180-400 1:4E TC1.4 FL ED VR. It's a photographic lens with a 1.4x teleconverter build into the lens itself. So the DSLR market is finally catching up with 80s technology.

Total nostalgia at the 16-minute mark. I used to shoot high school sports with a Sony Betacam in the early 90s and remember those halos/streeks from shooting lights.

That doubler is also called a teleconverter. You can also get them for 35mm cameras and modern cameras too. They come in 2x, but 1.4x and 3x are common too, and the brightness loss scales with the zoom factor.

You probably know more about electronics than I do... but my opinion is that it needs recapped. Often when something goes bad with time powered on, it's caps.

Ah, yes, the good interesting nature of analogue cameras... 👍 😊 These "effects" and this quality never ever can be 100% reproduced digitally❗

In most modern broadcast lenses they have a 2x extender. Surprised those larger newer eng cameras didn’t have ones.

I'd love to see someone recap this thing, see if that helps. I agree, this is a gorgeous bit of kit.

15:45 that looks cool reminds me of animes when characters get really serious and their eyes start making a trail of light like this lel

Oh, by the way: Thanks for pointing out that image doubler. I learned my Ikegami has the same thing! (That's a Fujinon lens on your JVC, which is branded on my Ikie, but otherwise looks the same. Very similar design, and I was able to follow along with everything you were showing on the lens with mine.) For video cameras, my first love was a Sony AVC-3200, which I spotted in my high school's AV department. (Yes, I'm an old fart, who remembers 1/2 inch open reel VTRs used in classrooms.) That JVC is the best looking three tube ENG camera I've seen so far. I hope you find a way to fix it. Also, thanks for the idea of using a cell phone as a much, MUCH lighter porta-pack for the camera!

You have to white balance on a white card with the 3200° filter inside or the 6000° filter outside.

its interesting seeing this analog camera in use and seeing how many similarities there are to audio equipment. like there being an amplifier with dB ratings and seeing that the color equalization can be knocked out of whack

this really is the quintessential 1980s television camera isn't it? It sure looks the part.

That extra spring lever on the extender, which I know it is called by Fujinon, is most likely meant for feedback to the servo-unit about the position of the extender, which can then relay this information to the camera's CCU-connector (or, on modern lenses, the digital remote that can basically control the whole lens via a 12-pin connector at the bottom of the servo-unit) I don't know if this lens could be equipped, but there are lenses with extenders that can be motorised so the camera operator in the control room can enable the extender remotely. (that's why there's also a feedback-option). Extenders are still very common, even on modern ENG lenses. Their quality is now so good they impact image-quality only measure-able (?). Oh and for 15:00 you did VERY WELL on manually focussing that sparrow (was it a sparrow?). Many, MANY people of my age (33 at the moment, 2021) I know can't even grasp manual focus at all and don't seem to get that the LCD even shows you whether you're in focus or not (though I have to admit, I still miss the good old CRT-viewfinders, which just incorporated peaking on it's own instead of the peaking one usually has to adjust on a LCD-viewfinder to be able to it properly. Sony does a very good job on this, JVC sucks quite a bit when it comes to good focus peaking.

It's called an extender as well and has one stop of light loss. Amplification is normally called gain. 9db is typically one stop of light sensitivity gained, 18db is two. Modern have from -3 db (useful to reduce light in very bright situations or when you want to open the aperture more to blur the background) up to 42db or even higher. Black levels on older cameras were more prone to drifting over time or after gain usage. Today with modern cameras you might do it once or twice a year for things like news. I agree there was a useful counterbalance effect with the weight. The best was a PDW530 XDCam...just well balanced and the right weight to follow action off the shoulder well. Shot with an HDCam and it was the heaviest damn thing and counterproductive. Had a 300 series P2 last and it was a bit too light. You could start a collection of formats...3/4, oxide betacam, betacam sp, MII, Super VHS, Dcvpro, Dvcam, Betacam SX, HDCam, Digibeta, XDCam, P2, and more...Never a shortage of formats... The king of video back in the day...from about 85-2005 was the Sony D600. The thing cost as much as a house, but was the defacto camera for network level video work, like 60 minutes, Dateline, Nightly News. I'm sure you could pick one up for next to nothing now.

The Polaroid Macro 5 ( a forensic and dental camera from the 90s) has a very similar mechanism.

i do love the vaporwave quality

You probably already know this by now, but in still photography the same idea as there doubler exists as 'tele converters' they are extra elements you manually add to increase. Usually they are designed to work with specific focal range lenses, so a converter for a 200mm lens will not work well is a 50mm lens etc.

Hehe dunno if you did it since (this video being two years old and all) but have you tried recapping the board that's connected to the sensors? And/or the power side of things? Surely that's something you know how to do, the question is more likely about whether or not it's worth your time and money?

oh cool you must live really close to me if you shop at Frye's and go to Seward Park! when you zoom on on the plane my place is in there somewhere :) been loving your videos !

There are DSLR telephoto lenses with built-in teleconverters for photography, usually a 1.25x or 1.4x

You're likely already aware, but some MiniDV and Digital 8 camcorders can accept an AV input for recording or capturing over FireWire. It may be a bit more bulky, but it works great for capturing analog video to 720x480i DV.

Nice old camera the fault is in the blanking and black level section the tubes clamping is also weak it’s probably just caps as it varies with temperature.you need a schematic really but caps are cheap and as it’s modular you could do a module at a time . It’s the sort of thing I would love to get my teeth into.

Before they all had zoom lenses, studio TV cameras in the UK (and maybe elsewhere), ONLY had a turret with a few different fixed lenses you could rotate between for different types of shots.

Hello!! Nice video again. :-) I´ve a question regarding to the video capturing method that you are using with the "Easy Cap" and you cell phone. 1- What kind of software did you used for the video capture? 2- Is that software for an Android device? 3- Does the capture result in the maxium resolution and with all the fields that the camera can supply to the Easy Cap? Thanks in advance and congrats for your videos! Asier.

Take it from an 8 bit enthusiast, it needs to be recapped. Capacitors from that era are notorious :)

I had an old 90's CCTV camera that also had weird discoloration at the top edge of the image until the image went slowly to black over the months._

How to you hook it up to see picture

Alot of lenses have doublers, these days doublers can look just as good as normal now.

What app was that you were using to view the camera on your phone?

the x2 zoom magnifier is really interesting. I wonder what type of lens mount would be used here. Does it still a single flange distance?

Hi! Whats program do you use to record on Phone? Pls say:)

Gravis, did you shoot vaporwave videos on you cameras?

Do the newer cameras have a B4 mount? Instead of the B3 from the red one?

i'm sorry this cool boy broke. maybe it's worth contacting a repair shop, at least for an estimate?

ive managed to recreate the comet trailing effect that tube cameras have but its still no where near as good as an actual tube camera

At first I thought there might be something wrong with the timing circuitry but if you're able to display the test bars then it might not be the case.

Hey was that footage from my highschool?

Did you try recapping it? If there are any caps in tech this old, I wouldn't trust them

got some cheap Chinese lenses for my ol Canon DSLR, weird lenses are great fun to play with. mirror zoom lenses, 2x doublers, T ring, strap it to a 500x spotting scope, that kinda thing. they are a right PITA to use, all manual, but thats why photography (and videography i guess) is a fun hobby, you can screw around with it, and every now and then, something really cool comes out of it. my question is, is there a ring adapter available that you can use your pretty swish old video lens to an SLR mount? by all accounts, thats a pretty nice peice of glass. what is that mount actually called? can I plug it to my canon? (or sony, whatever, worth buying a 'new' depreciated SLR for that) I can really see myself building a shoulder stock for a 10 year old DSLR using a 30 year old pro grade video lens. not sure if its 'a phrase' in the rest of the world, but in AU, it would be 'for shits and giggles', AKA, 'cos I can' also, pretty cool that the squirrel uses that concrete ridge as a highway. I love finding wildlife 'hacks' like that. that scene would have been pretty bad on a camcorder. huzzah big red! Cheers Mate!

Vaporwave videos in downtown Seattle is one of my favourite genres.

sad, that camera makes everything look like there's some cheesy effect

It's not possible to swap the lenses? (too lazy to thumb through the comments 🤷🏾‍♂️)

One of the capacitor have died dude.

The shots in the park could have been right out of 1984, even your friend fits in.. But as soon as cars show up, the experience is ruined.. Cars doubleungood

Be call those BB(jv)C's

:)

It's just never the same colour

I'm blue and aibadee I can die

that video capture setup is fantastic. I think i'd like to do that to a cheap goodwill camcorder and achieve M A X I M U M _ V A P O U R W A V E on the go