[QuadList] Cronkite's first half-hour newscast... count the tape roll ins

[Guy Spiller]

Yes, it does look like everything is clipped somewhat...although Walter 
in the studio shot doesn't look too bad.
IO cameras had a pretty forgiving knee themselves....no artificial 
processing circuitry required. I don't really remember looking at a 
grayscale chart on a TK-60 or 11, but I don't remember them having any 
real problems with blacks....and we certainly weren't concerned with 
noise all that much.
I think the advent of color....the TK-41 and  later....plumbicon 
cameras, which had no real knee on their own, made getting the proper 
exposure a little more universal.
And Chris just reminded me in his post that the early b/w IO cameras did 
not have iris servos....so you had to light your scenes consistently and 
were stuck with your initial f stop.  I don't remember ever telling the 
camera operator to "reach around and stop that thing down a little!".  
We did "ride the gain" for minor corrections however, as Chris pointed out.
Guy

C. Park Seward wrote:
> Hi Guy,
>
> Seems like the entire dub was overexposed or just recorded with the 
> gain too high. Look at the commercials and see how overexposed they 
> look. You know the commercials (the cash register) were not overexposed!
>
> Were IO cameras overexposed to make up for poor black reproduction?
>
> Best,
> Park
>
> C. Park Seward
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>
>
> On Jul 18, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Guy Spiller wrote:
>
>> It's also funny how video sensibilities have changed.  Ever notice 
>> how so much material shot with image orthicon cameras was 
>> overexposed?  I know I was just as guilty of it back then.
>> That Kennedy segment is a classic example.  Ouch....
>> Guy
>>
>> C. Park Seward wrote:
>>> Ted,
>>>
>>> We see quad breakup AND helical. Live, the switch didn't appear that 
>>> bad since monitors would lock quickly to the new sync. You can see a 
>>> little squiggle right after the switch and then the quad would lock. 
>>> The helical dub recording continues to roll.
>>>
>>> Interesting that the commercials were V-locked!
>>>
>>> At that time, the only was to lock a remote was to adjust the 
>>> crystal sync standard to match the network. But hey, what's a little 
>>> roll...
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Park
>>>
>>> C. Park Seward
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 18, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Ted Langdell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Quite a few tape roll ins or remote switches that were not liked by 
>>>> the Quad machine recording the first half-hour network newscast.
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcdpYMfY5iE
>>>>
>>>> The Kennedy interview is a live to tape series of segments 
>>>> scattered through the broadcast, and the Dan Rather piece is either 
>>>> a tape roll-in or a live switch to a feed of a film-based report 
>>>> from a remote location that wasn't synced to the network.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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