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Early Zoom Lens: Part 3 This is the Watson 5×1 zoom made by Watson and Son, near London. This lens debuted in 1948 and is mounted on a Marconi Mark II at the 1954 Empire Games. The zoom command would be on the other side of the camera, but notice (1) the metal cabled focus […]

Let’s Set The Record Straight: NBC and Norelco

  • July 22, 2012

Let’s Set The Record Straight: NBC and Norelco I thought it was sacrilegious to mention NBC and Norelco in the same breath, but that was before I met Fred Himelfarb. Fred was NBC’s senior camera engineer and was in charge of the NBC Labs at 30 Rock. Fred came from RCA to NBC with the […]

Angenieux Evershed Lens This is the ‘box zoom’ lens

  • October 16, 2012

Angenieux Evershed Lens This is the ‘box zoom’ lens made by Angenieux but it was very rare to see one of these in the US. The Rank-Taylor-Hobson zoom lenses were more common here on RCA cameras, but occasionally you saw one, as on the WDAF camera in the photo just before this. Source

October 18, 1952…RCA’s First Experimental Color Football Broadcast

  • October 18, 2016

Below is a rare look at RCA/NBC’s first color remote unit, used for this color-cast. Although it was seen by 99.9% of the audience in black and white, it did at least prove the “compatible color” claim RCA made for its Dot Sequential color system. The year before, CBS had broadcast a football game in […]