1978 JVC GC-3300E vidicon tube colour camera in action

This is a 10 minute video compile of shots of my backyard using a 1978 JVC GC-3300E vidicon tube colour camera. This camera uses two vidicon tubes, one tube has a 4 colour stripe filter to decode the colour and the other is plain B&W for the luminance to give good luminance levels. The images from this camera are excellent at good light level settings and the colour reproduction is even more accurate than my saticon cameras, unfortunately burn marks are present when the iris is almost closed for the highlights, but apart from that the pictures are excellent for a 32 year old colour camera. Also the pictures seem to match that of my colour video still experiments with my B&W Sony AVC-3200CE vidicon camera in which I made from using 3 chroma channels red, green and blue and a luma channel. Anyways this camera makes a fine addition to my collection of vintage cameras!!! :)

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• 1978
• JVC
• GC-3300E
• vidicon
• tube
• colour
• color
• video
• camera
• gc3300e
• gc3300u
• gc-3300u

[guimbadriver]

there´s burn points in the vidicon target this camera uses te manual iris control,but good color fidelity for a 32 years old single tube color camera..

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[RET80]

interesting camera.

It's amazing how different one tube camera is from another. Mine acts completely different from yours. Yet they were made around the same time.

Also, what is with the horizontal lines on the camera during the sky shots? is it a memory from something you looked at that was bright? or is that permanent burn-in?

[GanEdenAustralia]

Good zoom on it and pretty steady.