Re: B&W portable streaming camera + kit from 1960s
 

That is a great article! Thanks Chris.

I note the use of microwave links evident in many of the photos... along with firetruck extendable ladders on some OB trucks, and a tripod-mounted microwave dish in the last photo that looks identical to OB gear in use when I was getting started in the 70s.

Re: B&W portable streaming camera + kit from 1960s
 

Making me feel old. I started in the '66. Hasn't technology changed. In '66 I could buy a house in Clifton Down, Bristol in the UK for around £5000 pounds Stirling. Just down Whiteladies road at the BBC studios the first color cameras were coming in. A camera chain was about £100,000 pounds. You had to be the Almighty or one of his off-siders to touch one.

Today houses in Clifton Down, Bristol are around £1 to £2.5 million pounds and I can buy a £2,000 pound camera that would kill the original £100,000 color cameras we had.

As Bob said "The times they are a'changin."

Chris Young

Re: B&W portable streaming camera + kit from 1960s
 

I am old Chris!! a decent 3CCD broadcast camera with a 3/4"u-matic recorder or an analogue Betacam SP camera cost an arm and a leg and my first camera was a domestic WVP100 with a Saticon tube sensor!! Good days though!!

Re: B&W portable streaming camera + kit from 1960s
 

And here's an off-air recording of the broadcast of the moon landing (animation) and also the control centre at NASA and the streaming quality of what was sent from the moon.


(timed to start at 9:31)

Andrew