[Tig] More memories please

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Dec 16, 2007, at 8:08 PM, DCFWTX at aol.com wrote:


> Rob and Ed,
>
> We have a PC 70, TK 42, TK 44, TK 47, PE 350, PCP-90, and TK 60 in
> our lobby.  When you look inside of the PC 70 head, you cannot be
> unimpressed with the engineering you see with the optic layout,
> circuit boards, etc.

in the 1970s I worked with some of the engineers who were involved
with the design of the PC 70: Ted Dunn, Ron Ranieri. They had been
subsequently hired by Unitel, where they could troubleshoot these
cameras with alacrity. The PCP 90, Philips' version of a portable PC
70, was also part of the complement of studio and remote cameras. The
Thomson portacam (that is not the proper name; i don't remember what
it was actually called) was a revolution when it appeared, being
smaller and lighter than the PCP 90. The color controls were
wonderfully easy to work with.

The remotes we did sometimes used the Ampex portable 2" recorder, a
wonder in miniaturization for it's time. I shuddered when a bicycle
messenger returned our only machine to the 57th street studios having
banged around Manhattan with it.

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