Here is the one of two very rare lenses donated to the Pavek Museum…this one is a 27 element Zoomar long lens used at CBS Television City (the other lens is in the next post down on this page). Although Steve does not have the full history on these 2 great rarities, this one has the CBS markings. Congratulations Steve!
How Very Interesting! Here is something very rare! At just over 2:20 in, the BBC’s version of the RCA TK40/41, the Marconi BD 848 color cameras appear on the screen. One has a viewfinder, one doesn’t but you rarely see these in action. The whole piece is great and shows lots of ‘new’ developments like […]
Here you’ll see everything from the TK60s and 41s to lenses, pedestals, heads, cranes, lights, control room and telecine gear and more…it’s the whole magilla. In case you have never visited David Gleason’s American Radio History site, you should! He has almost every broadcast publication ever printed and it’s all readable and searchable. A fantastic […]
TeleTales #266…TV Golf In The 1950s With The Master’s fresh on our minds, here is a look at how CBS covered a match in Palm Springs in 1956…with very long lenses. This is an extended Zoomar Field Lens on an RCA TK11/31. The studio version was the TK11, and the field version was the TK31; […]
TV Lens Week…Post 3: Studio Box Lens vs ENG/EFP Lens Canon’s Larry Thorpe explains the differences and who better? Before joining Canon, Larry was an engineer who built cameras at the BBC, then RCA where he worked on the TK42 and 44 and later went to Sony to help in the development of their studio […]