[QuadList] was Helicals, Quads, now Marconi cameras

[Guy Spiller]

Hi Bill,
Truly a small world! 
That's incredible....I remember all that now...especially the IR 
filter.  That was a wild effect.  I've never seen anything like 
that...to this day.
The pictures of the camera I attached last night are of one of the 
actual cameras we used on that shoot.  This is one of my original two 
that I started BES with and is enjoying it's retirement in my living room.
I did a lot of events with that truck genlocked to that PCP-90, as there 
was no way to genlock the camera to anything and frame syncs were things 
of fantasy.  Amazingly, I got away with it pretty well until I bought 
the TK-76.
In fact,  I still have that little red wagon in my barn....and the 
PCP-90 is still at BES on display, at least it was the last time I 
stopped by.
Guy


bill.spencer at northstarstudios.tv wrote:
> Guy,
>
> It is great to actually see a piece of gear that I actually used at one
> time!  We rented the BES truck for a remote when I was at CBN.  We did
> some live inserts from the new center in Virginia Beach when the main
> facilities were still in Portsmouth, VA.
>
> The two hi-lites of the shoot to me were having to replace the red tube
> in one of the MK-VII cameras and forgetting (or not having one on site)
> the IR filter and the talent's suit then glowed purple!  A cold black
> would setup ok, but if there was any heat in it the red black would jump
> up. 
>
> The other thing that is memorable was the hand held camera was a PCP-90
> and we pulled the back pack around in a Radio Flyer wagon so the camera
> operator wouldn't get too tired.  Also, it wouldn't genlock properly so
> we genlocked the truck to it and in turn the studio which was feeding
> the whole network and depending on that back pack rolling around in a
> child's wagon to not hiccup!
>
> One of the singers on that shoot was Kathy Lee Johnson who is now Kathy
> Lee Gifford.
>
> 73,
>
> Bill Spencer, KY4O
>
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Guy Spiller
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