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Author Topic: Upload your random pictures Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 08-21-2004 04:30 PM                     Kintek rules.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-21-2004 08:50 PM                     Indeed. No better suround speaker has ever been made.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-21-2004 09:27 PM                  Camera 54, where are you? >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-21-2004 10:04 PM                    Any explanation?  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 08-21-2004 10:09 PM                        Wow. Out with the old (RCA TK-41(C)s in the back) and in with the new (Norelco PC-60s or -70s in front). I pity the video shaders trying to get those pictures to match. Probably ESU for an ABC Wide World of Sports golf shoot. Truck Phase 6 is probably close by.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-21-2004 10:11 PM                  quote: Steve Kraus Any explanation? Ummm... NO! Ok, Ok, OK! I guess I better post something before that jerk Joe bans me! It's a publicity photo from ABC's "Wide, Wide, World Of Sports" coverage touting how many cameras they have for a golf tournament. (Like I care?) Edit: quote: Paul Mayer I pity the video shaders trying to get those pictures to match. Paul, I pity ANY "shader" or "colorist".... what a f*cking BORING job! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 08-21-2004 10:30 PM                        Eh, it's a living. Paid for college and flight lessons. Even if I was accused of being color blind from time to time.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-21-2004 11:20 PM                    Amazing. All those cameras for one probably low-rated broacast and Roone's salary too. BTW, those RCA's had most of their electronics back in a rack or two, right? How self-contained were the Norelco's? Were their CCU's just CCU's, that is, to balance and control, etc. or did they still represent half the guts of the camera?  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 08-22-2004 01:32 AM                        Most of the guts of a PC-70 were in the CCU, but it was pretty compact for its time--about one half-height rack with an optional shelf extension out the front for the OCP. About the only electronics in the camera head itself were the RGB preamps. At TAV we configured the CCUs with all the modules above the OCP instead of below as in the lefthand photo. Much easier to get to stuff that way. IIRC the TK-41C CCU took up two full-height racks. The "C" designation was for the transistorized pre-amps--everything else in the camera and CCU was still tubes. I broke in as a TV cameraman on the TK-41C, and later broke in as a video shader on the PC-70. One neat engineering feature on the PC-70 was that pedestal insertion took place right at the beginning of each color's A-module within the CCU. Also the master pedestal level was infinitely variable from 0-100IRE, meaning that a video guy could do complete RGB grayscale tracking in the CCU without having to have the head powered, or even connected. Never needed a chip chart for those cameras, just a registration chart with a black reference chip. That used to save us lots of time on remote shoots--Bob Cadigan and I could begin camera set up while the guys were still physically setting up and cabling the heads. The PC-70 is still a personal favorite, arguably Philips' best tube camera ever.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-22-2004 02:11 AM                  quote: Paul Mayer The PC-70 is still a personal favorite, arguably Philips' best tube camera ever. I agree Paul about the PC-70s. I also like that big ol' POS RCA TK-42 for nostalgic reasons! For B&W: The TK-60 still makes my tongue hard! (Yea! 5820 IO's!) >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-22-2004 10:48 AM                    What period was each camera made? Give me a nice monoscope with an Indian-head TP. Who says a TV picture must move?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-22-2004 12:05 PM                     Inside a TK-41.... Photo is from the same site that Phil has been getting the above photos from.... And specially for Steve....... All about the Order of the Indian Head...... http://www.pharis-video.com/p21.htm Enjoy! Mark  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 08-22-2004 12:07 PM                        The TK-40 and TK-41 were first-generation color cameras dating from 1953. Not sure when the TK-41C came out--I would guess early '60s. NBC continued to use them up through the end of the '60s when the TK-44 began to replace them. The TK-60 was RCA's last B&W camera--it also dates from the '60s. The local PBS affiliate KLVX opened with these cameras in the studio in 1967. When the studio switched to color production using a pair of TK-41Cs in 1973, the TK-60s went into the remote truck (a 1953 Chevy step van first owned by KHJ in LA) replacing the original equipment TK-10s(!). KLVX is where I got my start right out of high school in 1973. The PC-60 came out in 1966, the PC-70 in 1968. The PC-70 (and its handheld sibling the PCP-90) became the standard of the industry for the next 15 years. I started learning video shading in 1974 on the PC-70, apprenticing under the great Bob Cadigan at Trans American Video. (On the PL, Cadigan was known as "The Monsignor"; my nickname became "Monjunior.") TAV had two trucks in those days--units 140 and 540, each set up to handle six PC-70s or PCP-90s (the same CCUs could be used for either).  |  IP: Logged Ron Yost Master Film Handler Posts: 344 From: Paso Robles, CA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 08-22-2004 06:24 PM                     There are four TK-60's 'in action' (meaning operating for real, not faked) in the original 1962 version of "The Manchurian Candidate". On the newly released DVD they're in Chapter 7. John Frankenheimer was directing them from the camera truck, according to his director's commentary on the DVD, and it was done in one-take. Ron Yost  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-01-2004 12:24 AM                     I have to carry ALL these books with me Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I have class 8 to 2 and have no time to return to my apartment-even though its just off campus-to drop off/pick up books. I think by the end of the semester I will be in much better shape. Perhaps with a bad back, but in better shape.  |  IP: Logged

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