hitachi tube camera demo

***No camera tubes were harmed in the making of this video***

State of the art camera technology from 1982 in action! Comet tailing, image lag, and blooming are demonstrated here Unlike modern cameras with solid state imaging sensors, this was a hitachi camera with a saticon tube inside.

Tubes behave much different than chips because the image sensing surface on the tube may take several sweeps of the scanning beam to be completely discharged. This is why tube cameras display comet tailing and lag effects on bright lights.

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Education

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• hitachi
• saticon
• tube
• camera
• comet
• tail
• lag
• blooming
• demo

[FelixTheHouseFreak]

Hello, i got a tube camera recently but it will only display in green. I suppose that the tube has gone bad? Are replacements hard to find?

[uwtitanfan]

@FelixTheHouseFreak Check inside the camera, there might be loose wires or bad components that are causing the color circuitry to not work, if not, then the tube is wore out and no, you'll be very hard pressed to find a replacement

[KickingKids]

I recenetly acquired a vk-c800 from my late grandfather and I am unable to figure out how to load a cassette into it, (If I'm even supposed to put a cassette into it) or does the cable on the back plug into a receiver/recorder? In short, how do i record, charge and use this fine piece of equipment?

[uwtitanfan]

The camera has no VTR built into it. These cameras date back to an era where you needed a seperate VTR to power the camera and record.

So you need to find an old VTR that has the proper socket on it to plug the camera into, or barring that - a hitachi power supply with the break out cable to attach it to a VCR, or barring even that - you can hack the plug off and trace out the wires and wire it your self using a power supply and some cables from radio shack.

[newvicon]

Way Cool!!! What model is your Hitachi? My JVC GX-S9U has a Saticon tube. Then I have 2 other newvicon tube cameras.

[uwtitanfan]

The camera was a hitachi vk-c800 - This wasn't my camera thought, it was my high schools, I was using it to help fix a panasonic NV-8500 VRT deck also from 1982, which recorded this video, which was back in 1997

[princegalena]

0:06 Stereo '2'

[georgef551]

If you made some noise every few/several seconds, the music bots would not have detected your stereo. They need 10 continuous seconds of good quality music to recognize a song.

It would be best, though, to either lower the volume/shut it off, or where you have no control, make sounds every as stated.

[rtbvhsrip]

Yeah, my GRUNDIG FAC 130 W camera is working and also has probably Saticon tube, although it has not so long comet trails like yours :( I wished it had longer comet trails. It's one of common 10-pin style pistol-grip cameras.

[rtbvhsrip]

@gregliam Just remove the connector and if no pinout can be found, trace "into" the camera. I think they just need 12V, maybe some logic pin "activating" them, and give composite picture out. (I never had until now tube camera, but it's my presumption). To make actual use of the camera for art films add a 12V Li-Ion battery pack and 1-5W 2.4 GHz AV transmitter from Ebay China

[rtbvhsrip]

I'm getting my ever first tube camera, a Saticon-based GRUNDIG hopefully today.

Then just remove the stupid connector, add 12V battery pack + overpowered 2.4 GHz transmitter. And the camera is ready for actual use ;) And if it needs the real 80s home video feeling, i can drop in a OSD inserter chip as time/date generator.

What Audioswap track, btw? Thanks

[glitchesandglitter]

the only problem i have with mine, is that if they break i have no idea of where i can have them fixed :( unfortunately these camera go out after time. it's really inevitable, because the tubes inside them have a limited lifespan.

[SlimeTron5000]

Behaves much like my eyes.

[gregliam]

working VTR's are really hard to find...

I have a tube camera but I cant use it: no VTR