How The Great Neumann U87 Is Made…
My favorite mic. Enjoy. -Bobby Ellerbee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvtjHhtxmpI
Interesting little clip about how a Neumann U87 microphone is manufactured. Pretty fiddly, with a ton of hand labor – no wonder they’re so freaking expensive!
JUST ADDED TO THE COLLECTION! I’m happy to share these first pictures of an Ikegami 377 that I have just added to my collection. The green CBS logos are added as a tribute to 46 year CBS veteran cameraman Dave Dorsett who retired from the David Letterman show in December, 2011. Each camera on that […]
Classic CBS This is the late Dennis ‘Paddy’ McBride in command of a TK30. For many years, Dennis was one of the top cameramen for CBS. His specialty was sports and he won several Emmys for his work which included zoom lens techniques. Great photo. Source
NBC 1949, Television Scene Magazine Seems a lot of people like to give credit to ‘I Love Lucy’ for establishing a three camera production standard, but live television at the network level had been doing that for several years before Lucy. Even ‘The Honeymooners’ that was shot on film with the Dumont Electrocam used three […]
‘Tonight’…The Jack Paar Era Location wise, the ‘Tonight’ show with Jack Paar started where Steve Allen left off…in the Hudson Theater but the final show from there came the week the 1950s ended. The first week of January 1960, the show’s new home would be NBC’s Studio 6B. In the photo below (and at the […]