TV Lens Week…Post 4: SD and HD Lens Comparison
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Larry Thorpe of Canon discusses putting standard definition lenses on high definition cameras. http://www.hdcameraguide.com
Before all the live shots below were made on a Sunday night in December of 1958, there was a rehearsal. Here, from earlier in the day, is Ed checking the script of his live GE spot against the script on a paper roll teleprompter mounted on a TK30. Photo courtesy Life Magazine. Above is […]
“The Tonight Show” Crew In Action…A Behind The Scenes Look In the embedded video below, you’ll see what the audience in Studio 6B saw, when Jimmy Fallon and Jon Hamm did a fast paced blackout routine live. At this link, you can see how it looked to us at home, which is quite different. https://youtu.be/TcKT0vbMhkU […]
A Teaching Moment This photo was taken between late 1946 and early 1948. How do I know? Because, when the RCA TK30s arrived at NBC New York, they initially put the NBC logo on the viewfinder and the WNBT label on the camera body. When the TK10s arrived a few months later, they decided the […]
‘Howdy Doody Show’…The Unforgettable Clarabell Goodbye Until those awful days in Dallas in 1963, September 24, 1960 was television’s most memorable moment…at least for us kids who watched ‘Howdy Doody’ every Saturday morning. The show debuted with Iconoscope cameras December 27, 1947 but by early April new RCA TK30 Image Orthicon cameras were in 3H. […]