Re: Lorinda Norton's 80's video camera makes the big time!
 

Yep -- this (among many other things) I love with this forum.

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Re: Lorinda Norton's 80's video camera makes the big time!
 

Lorinda, One or more times I had this setup A Big old wooden Miller tripod sitting on a home made dolly, amde of 1" square tubing and some nice wheels. None of this fold up stuff, this was all welded in place. Perched on top of that was either a hired JVC KY1900 or similar camera, with a domestic 150w floodlight on top. There was a Audio, Video and power cable bundle trailing from the camera back to a U-Matic desktop recorder on a table. I would push the dolly or shoulder mount the camera and wander around the wedding reception hoping no one would trip over the leads and blind them all and say smile.
A uMatic portapack made life a bit easier later on. Then we downgraded to super VHS.

Nothing like now, carting a little Sony a6000 with tiny light on top as fill.

Re: Lorinda Norton's 80's video camera makes the big time!
 

Mervyn, as well as Lorinda's camera I have in my possession two KY1900's that I use for recreations of period broadcast stuff. It turns out that while those were the cheapo cameras of the day, the Saticon tubes have aged better than the Plumbicons (good luck finding a functional Ike HL79 now)! As far as blinding people goes, I hear you on that--they are terrible un-sensitive by today's standards and I have to pour tons of light onto the set whenever I use them.

As seen below, one of the 1900's rigged out in all directions to shoot this sketch:

Re: Lorinda Norton's 80's video camera makes the big time!
 

Searching for more of these cameras, this thread popped up (had forgotten about it). These little Magnavoxes are still great, 15 years(!) after this thread was started. I now have a few of them outfitted to rent out and record onto Atomos recorders. One of them is on a junket for the upcoming Transformers movie today, figured I'd post the latest configuration!