「Ampex/Nagra VPR-5」 NTSC 1-inch type-C portable VTR

Product description
The VPR-5 is a 1-inch C-format portable broadcast video recorder. Developed as a joint-venture with the AMPEX corporation of America it was introduced in 1983 as the world's smallest, lightest broadcast quality portable video reorder. Available in both PAL (for European) and NTSC (North American) television formats the VPR-5 allowed broadcast quality video to be shot on-location.

I placed detailed information in my blog.
(there is a mention in blog of the car life)
The applicable addresses of "Nagra VPR-5" are as follows.
ttp://minkara.carview.co.jp/us­erid/651150/blog/c657621/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Nagra
• Kudelski
• VPR-5
• ampex
• 1inch
• 1-inch
• type-C

[M6E64]

Thank you for a quick reply. This model can receive a reel until 90 minutes in a record model for optional long time. This option consists of a large-sized reel cover and a reel base of the oversize. I photographed the image which I contributed in the state that excluded a record option for a long time. Because I put the details on the following URL, please refer to it.

ttp://minkara.carview.co.jp/us­erid/651150/blog/c657621/

[oldtwins]

Does this do 1080p?

[BANGERS68]

i would kill for this machine man

[redgenner]

@douglas787 I'm struggling to imagine an application for such a machine myself - especially considering the high quality cassette formats which must also have been available at the time of its production. Then again, the Swiss make some beautiful and astonishing wind up clockwork bird machines too, which have no real application either, other than to be observed and appreciated! Application enough I reckon!

[OC35]

I have a PAL version of this with the newer rectangular buttons. No battery pack or charger/psu though. I have the cover for large spools but not the small ones.

[Wurm1220]

so eine maz,habe ich noch nie gesehen!!!!!schaut aber echt geil aus!!!

mfg

wurm1220

[machineman303]

Great machine! I know it, because I have it! My machine is a PAL version Mark II model (slightly updated firmware, different pushbuttons). Mine is almost sctratch free, with only some drum hours, and I have spare head tip. I have the protecting cover also, and intelligent charger/PSU with two kevlar-packed NiCd battery. I think I have only this kind of engineering miracle in my country (Hungary), maybe one other exist somewhere. Very few VPR-5 collectors exist.

[HalonenProductions]

Interesting feature to me to notice that rotation speed of video head drum is reduced during fast tape winding. Unlike to the studio tape recorders which head drum rotation speed is normally constant during playback and fast winding. Very fast response to the tape playback direction change.

[douglas787]

I wonder why, with all the effort to make the unit as small as possible, that the designers did not make a cover/case that enclosed the entire unit, reels and all so it could be carried while being used with a camera. I just don't see how it could be portable while in use with the reels sticking out like that.