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
The Rank-Taylor-Hobson Zoom Lens By far, this was the most popular zoom for RCA TK41s and TK60s. The Zoomar was also very popular, but that was seen mostly on black and white cameras in use prior to the mid 60’s introduction of this lens. This is often refereed to as the Varotal III and Varotal […]
A while back, my friend John Bolin came from California to see my camera collection. He brought along a few old Kodak shots of a camera he made as a boy of 13. No doubt it’s a TK30 mock up, complete with toilet paper rolls for lenses and Christmas tree lights for tally lights. You […]
KOTV: Tulsa, Oklahoma KOTV signed on in October of 1949 and became the nation’s 90th TV station. As the only station in the market for several years, they ran programs from ABC, CBS, NBC and Dumont. At first, network programming was aired about a week after being broadcast live on the East Coast; it would […]
1956, RCA/NBC Portable Camera Research & Development #2 From the 1956 Republican Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, here is an updated version of the 1952 RCA Vidicon portable wireless camera. Together, the back pack and camera weigh 48 pounds with 42 pounds of those on the cameraman’s back. Like it’s predecessor, this […]