How does a Sony Trinicon tube video camera compare with a CCD camcorder of the 80’s?
Mar.13, 2010 in
Gadgets
I know the Trinicon has about 300 lines. But overall, how does it compare to a 1/4” CCD found in a later Sony camcorder?
Hey:
Thanx for your answer. I will give you the points.
Does the tube camera have ANY advantages over a CCD camcorder.
At what time did camcorders begin offering three CCD’s?
March 13th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
God no.
I learned from asking a very similar question that recording on tube video cameras make very nasty lens smears on the footage from the the technology when the are situated in bright lighting, or moving away from light sources, then the fading smears, and repeats all over again with another light source.
To give you an idea on resolution, a VHS signal has a resolution of 425 lines, PAL regions. A VHS-C camcorder, a portable handheld camcorder version of the VHS, has roughly nearly this, at 400 lines (and DVD at 500 lines)
So, bluntly, the tube video cameras suffered from the streaking and quality loss from poor resolution compared to today, and has even less resolution than a domestic video recorder.
They were also big, bulky, and heavy, whereas if you look at a CCD camera they are much much smaller. The technology was better, more durable, and generally better quality.
(Special thanks to Lare, a Y! Answers member, who gave me the advice on this, they used Electronic News Gathering cameras instead of moderner camcorders as first generation camcorders have a poor service record, and such as TV stations did not have the cash to blow out on a £3000 camcorder when they could replace the seperate recorder deck for a 1/3 of that if it blew, for example. Sorry if that rambling made no sense…)