[Tig] More memories please

[Ed Reitan]

Hi Tom,

Enjoyed your memories of the G.E. Image Orthicon color camera.

I am putting together a page on my color television history site
about the GE camera which came out about 1958.

Where was your experience with the camera?  Can you name any
other stations that had the GE camera?  How good was its
colorimetry as compared to a TK-41?

I plan to reproduce several color pages from a brochure on the
camera.  Liked the idea that the camera taking optical horizontal
axis was higher and closer vertically to the axis of the
viewfinder (too many TK-41 shots required the cameraman to be on
a step stool).  But have never heard how good was its color.

Ed

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Ed Reitan's Color Television History
http://www.novia.net/~ereitan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Tcimpidis" <Tom at tgt.org>
To: <tig at ns1.colorist.org>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Tig] More memories please


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| My first color cameras were four GE PE-15s.  They were
basically a bad copy
| of a RCA TK-40.  They used three 3" I/Os, three pieces of 71
camera cable
| EACH, and a color encoder that took half a rack by itself.
They used relay
| optics with gel color seperation filters and holders for ND
gels to allow
| you to set the knee of the each I/O to be equal to the others.
The Iris was
| driven by a selsyn motor in the relay optics that also made for
a great
| camera call function.  Grab the iris knob and turn it real fast
and the
| camera made a good-awful grinding sound.  All the operators
knew that if
| they heard that, I needed them on camera.
|
| Tom
|
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