TV Lens Week…Post 4: Modulated Transfer Function…MTF
Canon’s Larry Thorpe explains MTF and why it is important.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R73lgtHEIr0
Larry Thorpe of Canon discusses MTF. http://www.hdcameraguide.com
When The CBUT Mark IIs Were Brand New This is a photo from August of 1954 showing camera one of four CBUT Marconi Mark IIs covering swimming competition at Vancouver’s newly constructed Empire Pool. Vancouver was the host city of the Empire (aka Commonwealth) Games of 1954. This camera is equipped with a Watson 5 […]
Now this is interesting! The Vinten Peregrine was a failed experiment in camera crane technology. Designed to a BBC spec, it was delivered to Television Centre in 1965. The idea was to build a camera crane that would fit on the footprint of a Vinten ped, but have the range of a Mole crane and […]
RCA Electra-Zoom Lens, Part 2 Source
RCA’s First Experimental Color Television Cameras Shown here are the first two RCA color cameras made. The photo was taken at NBC/RCA’s Wardman Park Studio in Washington DC around 1949. The camera on the left has the lens cowl removed and notice that the color splitting mirrors are mounted in front of the fixed lenses. […]