November 15, 1926…The First NBC Radio Broadcast, Part 2 The Basis Of The Red And Blue Networks In part one, we laid out the important basics of how all this came to be, so if you haven’t read that, go there first and this will make a lot more sense. Many believe that NBC created […]
Eyes Of A Generation Camera Collection, 2009 News Story Fortunately, I’ve lost 30+ pounds since this new story from February of 2009. It was shot and aired on Atlanta’s NBC affiliate WXIA, but was seen on 59 other NBC affiliates as well. Last week, a professional still photographer came up and spent 5 hours shooting […]
May 17, 1939…Television’s First Sports Announcer & Baseball Game On May 17, 1939 NBC broadcast a baseball game between Princeton and Columbia Universities from Columbia’s Baker Field. Two RCA Iconoscope cameras covered the event that was carried on NBC’s experimental station W2XBS in New York. Princeton beat Colombia 2 -1. The rare color image is […]
Varotal Mark III Field Lens…The Grandaddy Of Remote Zooms At 30 pounds, this is quite a big boy and took a bit of lead weighing on the pan handle to help balance this. I think the lever on the side of the lens is the back focus. Having never seen one of these in action, […]