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Originally Posted by Renate
Or four plumbicons, like the GE PE350.  |
That's a while ago. Certainly no single tube colour camera was in use when I was in the BBC. All three tubes. I confess I didn't know there was a four tube model. I just found a home movie on VHS recorded in 1992 of us by someone else (I didn't have any such gear then) and while it's better than an late 1970 or early 1980 single tube vidicon or saticon, it's not much better. Savagely poor compared to off-air or pre-recorded tapes surviving in the same collection I received (though free from drop-out, jitter and head-switching noise band). Now, should I digitise using the composite in to Firewire of the Digital 8 camcorder (without recording, bridge mode), or play the S-VHS player into the TV and point Canon EOS70D in HD camcorder mode at it (in edit quality setting), or composite to HDMI adaptor box connected to the HD DVB-T modulator (used for PC to feed entire house) and record H.264 on to USB stick? Or do all three and compare quality.
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Of course I had to look it up
https://eyesofageneration.com/camera...969-here-is-a/
1969 was ages before I was in the BBC.
I do have a great card for video capture, video edit, CD-i video playing and video out in the attic. VGA pass through with hardware overlay. But ISA bus and Win 3.x drivers (I think it did work on Win98 later) and amazingly the actual NLE software (Adobe Premiere) worked on XP, though codecs were an issue.