[QuadList] TK42 / 43 at NBC

[C. Park Seward]

Were the 42s as bad as reported?

Who ever thought that an IO and vidicon could work together inside one  
camera!?!?!

Best,
Park

C. Park Seward
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On Jul 21, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Dennis Degan wrote:

>
> 		On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Chill315 at aol.com wrote:
>
> > I found a few pictures in RCA Broadcast News from December 1966  
> that showed the election coverage from studio 8H.  They were using 5  
> TK-43 cameras for this coverage.  The story says that two of the  
> cameras were then used for the instant news studio as they did not  
> require warm up.  The others were doing duty elsewhere.
> > So there were RCA TK 42 / 43 cameras in use in NY.
>
> 		I say:
>
> 	Certainly I believe you Chris, but that contradicts everything I've  
> been told about NBC's color cameras.
> 	The 'instant news studio' (Studio 5N) was used very infrequently.
> 	I worked with a pair of TK-42/43s (yes, one was a -42 while the  
> other was a -43) in 1974 at the first TV station I worked at full- 
> time:  <http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/557859754/>
> 					<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/558126149/>
> 	And here I am, acting like a fool with a TR-70b:
> 					<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515339326/>
>
> 			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> 	  					NBC Today Show, New York
>
>
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