AS RARE AS RARE CAN BE! Ikegami’s First Studio Color Camera

AS RARE AS RARE CAN BE! Ikegami’s First Studio Color Camera

This is the Ikegami TK 301. Earlier this year I posted a photo of the Ikegami 301A which followed a year later with some updates inside and a smaller tally. I’ll have a new photo of that tomorrow, but here is the granddaddy of the color studio line from Ikegami that was built and delivered to Japan’s NHK Network in Tokyo in 1971.

A friend of Chuck Pharis’, Jerome Halphen in Paris, France made a trip to the NHK Museum earlier this month and took over 120 photos. I’ll be posting them in albums as we go along, so be ready for a first class photo tour of the magnificent NHK museum. If only the US networks had done what NHK has done, we would have a fantastic, historic collection of broadcast technology unrivaled in the world, but…most of it is gone now except what a few of us have managed to save for posterity. Enjoy and thanks to Chuck for sharing his friend’s photos.

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4 Comments

  1. Howard Malley October 23, 2013

    You know far more than I do. That said I was working at ABC Hollywood in 1977 when a truck load of Ikegami’s arrived for Studios 57&59.

  2. Gustavo Borjalo October 23, 2013

    NHK used the TK-301 in the Winter Games Sapporo, or have been the TK-301A?

  3. JM Roberts October 23, 2013

    A few of my pictures taken at the NHK Museum have already been on this site. Thanks for posting that.

  4. Troy Walters October 23, 2013

    A couple of TV stations in Australia used Ikegami TK-301s, a station local to where I live called WIN-4 Wollongong NSW http://www.odwyer.net/pics/wintv.jpg and DDQ-10 Toowoomba QLD see their 1982 studio tour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvSbNm9vJW0