[Tig] More memories please

[Bruce W. Goldstein]

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From: tig-bounces at tig.colorist.org [mailto:tig-bounces at tig.colorist.org] On
Behalf Of Rob Lingelbach
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 11:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [Tig] More memories please

Thanks to Tom Tomlinson/Nice Shoes for supporting the TIG.
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On Nov 16, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Martin Parsons wrote:

> Thanks to Tom Tomlinson/Nice Shoes for supporting the TIG.
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>> There was on room that had a (plumicon?) camera the size of a Hyundi.
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> Plumbicon maybe?
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right, and were the precursors Vidicon, and then Saticon?   they  
sound like planets today.   Chyron also sounded like a planet, and at  
first was as difficult to program (Chyron IV) as to travel to its  
namesake, if it exists.  I do remember the "do loops."

The video engineers in TV studios working with Plumbicon cameras and  
the other tube types had consoles for each camera in the control  
room, where they would start about an hour before the shoots, warming  
up the cameras (and themselves), first conducting registration of the  
tubes, then doing balance in the highlights, midranges and lowlights,  
as well as master gain, pedestal, etc.  It was most important that  
for example in a 3-camera shoot, that the cameras match.   They  
really did the work of colorists.  The registration chart was a ball/ 
circle affair that was imaged with the camera in a sort of  
'wobulation' mode that skewed and zoomed the image rapidly as I  
remember.
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Align Rock. Nothing to do with a type of music or geological protuberance.

Bruce W. Goldstein
Ascent Media East