[QuadList] First microprocessor in a camera or first computersetup????? Iki - RCA?

[Tony Quinn]

In message <GF+vlED81doNFw$q at tqvideo.co.uk>, Tony Quinn 
<tony at tqvideo.co.uk> writes
>In message <A899BC88-00F6-4C1C-8F7D-4817E1859D47 at videopark.com>, C. 
>Park Seward <park at videopark.com> writes
>>Bob remembers things as I do.
>>
>>My 357As did have computer set-up. I think that was before the 47.
>>
>>Channel 9 in Baton Rouge has 47s and they never looked right. Probably 
>>operator error.
>>
>>I marveled at the Marconi camera at the NAB one year when they were 
>>showing the motorized pots in the camera head. What were they 
>>thinking???
>
>I changed jobs in 1983, to a company that had just bought Marconi Mk(

Mk 9 - obviously

>cameras. Amongst other errors, they used two different sizes of tube 
>(25mm for Green and 18mm for Red and Blue) and has a lens which wasn't 
>down the centre line of the camera.
>
>I was in the workshop with a now deceased colleague who was giving me 
>the thirty bob tour (My previous experience had all been with the 
>excellent EMI 2001). Mike invited me to do an automatic line up, and 
>watch the motorised pots do their thing. When it had finished, and the 
>camera was far worse than when it started. His only comment was "and 
>that's why we leave it switched off"
>
>When we later bought Ikegami 323P cameras everybody was loathe 
>(incorrectly, as it turned out) to use the auto-registration facility, 
>although the fact that the studio heads were supplied with extended red 
>tubes and the portables without (despite being specified) WAS an issue :)

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