[Tig] More memories please

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Ed,



I have two.



David


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Reitan <ereitan at novia.net>
To: Bob Kertesz <bob at bluescreen.com>; tig at ns1.colorist.org
Sent: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 2:56 pm
Subject: Re: [Tig] More memories please




Thanks to Greg Fisher for supporting the TIG.
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Thanks Bob,
Does anyone know of a surviving Ampex VR3000  "suitcase" quad
ecorder?  One should be preserved in a collection- maybe in the
CLA Film and Television Archives "Collection of Television
echnology and Design".
It was quite a example of excellent packaging.
Ed Reitan
----- Original Message ----- 
rom: "Bob Kertesz" <bob at bluescreen.com>
o: <tig at ns1.colorist.org>
ent: Monday, December 17, 2007 10:14 AM
ubject: Re: [Tig] More memories please

hanks to Greg Fisher for supporting the TIG.
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>The remotes we did sometimes used the Ampex portable 2"
ecorder, a
wonder in miniaturization for it's time. I shuddered when a
icycle
messenger returned our only machine to the 57th street studios
aving
banged around Manhattan with it.
That was the Ampex VR3000, a "suitcase" style quad recorder. I
raveled around
he world for Editel with two of those and the Editel MKIII
andheld camera
or a couple of years in the early '70's. The deck weighed about
0 lbs, and
he only reasonable way to carry them was to have two of them so
ou didn't
ean over too far in one direction and both your arms stretched
qually.
It took 20 minute loads of small reel 2" tape, had one audio
hannel, and no
imecode channel. The vacuum for the guide and air for the air
earing head
14,400 rpm, remember?) came from what was essentially a small
quarium pump
nside the unit.
The Editel MKIII handheld was based on the Ampex BC230 studio
amera. We
ought those and pulled the boards and optical blocks/preamps out
f the
eads, and built our own handheld heads with just yokes and
reamps, going to
 backpack we also built containing the rest of the head
lectronics through a
0 foot piece of cable the size of my wrist. Then back to the CCU
hrough much
maller multicore able to go several hundred feet. The CCU's had
GB out, and
eeded an external encoder and an external enhancer to make
roper images.
The whole road show was in 11 cases for a one camera one vtr
etup.
Here is a picture of me in 1972 getting it ready to go on the
oad, taken in
he alley behind 729 N. Highland, home of Editel L.A. The picture
hows half
he cases for a complete one camera one vtr package
http://www.bluescreen.com/pix/BK-72.JPG
--Bob
Bob Kertesz
lueScreen LLC
ollywood, California
ob at bluescreen.com
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