TV Lens Week…Post 4: SD and HD Lens Comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MrC9Hgzdhw
Larry Thorpe of Canon discusses putting standard definition lenses on high definition cameras. http://www.hdcameraguide.com
Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention…The Cradle Head Patent The Fearless Camera Company and RCA had a good thing going… Fearless (later, Houston Fearless) built the support equipment and RCA’s built the cameras and distributed for Fearless. As you can see in the photo on the right, the first experimental TK40 color cameras used the […]
Short But Sweet…NBC NY & Burbank Quick Shots, Early 70s Thanks to our friend John Schipp, we are able to see a little over a minute’s worth of rare footage inside 30 Rock and Burbank. This is from a behind the scenes episode of NBC’s ‘The Go Show’ which aired briefly around 1973. It was […]
The Man Who Filmed ‘I Love Lucy’, Tells Us How It Was Done. By: KARL FREUND, Director of Photography The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz show was a challenge from the start. It was decided that, for the first time, TV cameras would be replaced with three motion picture cameras to allow more flexibility in editing and […]
A GREAT HALF HOUR OF HISTORY! Few show are as legendary as THE ED SILLIVAN SHOW, and to hear stories from those on the inside is quite a treat! Here is our friend John Moffitt sharing some of his recollections in part 3 of 9 interviews with the Television Academy.com John worked first as a […]