Super Rare! First Plumbicon Tests…
On August 8, 2013
- TV History
Super Rare! First Plumbicon Tests
The smaller camera is one of two experimental models of the first color plumbicon camera from Philips. It is the predecessor of the Philips LDK1/Norelco PC60 and it ha been built inside the body of a Philips monochrome camera. It is being compared in performance by the BBC to the Marconi BD 848, which is a 3 Image Orthicon color camera, very much like the RCA TK41. The date is probably late 1963 or early 64.
This picture demonstrates the rule that prototype cameras always have fewer air vents than production cameras.
Sure, the plumbicon tubes were developed by Philips in 1962…