How to get a colour video stills from a 1970s B&W video camera

Back in 2002 I've experimented with my 1970 Sony AVC-3200CE B&W vidicon tube video camera in trying to produce a colour video still from the camera by taking 3 video stills of a subject using red, green and blue cellophane filters and I was very successful in producing a good colour picture. What inspired me to do this experiment was this article http://www.labguysworld.com/ColrQkCm.htm on Richard Diehl's old video technology website which he made a colour image from his CCD QuickCam, and he featured my successful experiment at the bottom of the page. Anyways I thought I'd revive this cool experiment and take several colour video stills using the red, green, blue cellophane filter method and make a video demonstration on how this experiment is done to educate those who are interested in making colour video stills from a B&W video camera. This video features step by step instructions with pictures and a video in between of how to reproduce the colour bar pattern displayed on my monitor from the AVC-3200CE and followed up by a lot of other colour video stills taken indoors and outdoors, the results varied from poor to very good. I also threw in a few early 70s funk and rock instrumental soundtracks to suit with the era this camera was made. This is a cool experiment that can be carried out from any type of B&W video camera from the ancient iconoscope tubes to image orthicon tubes to vidicon tubes to plumbicon tubes up to CCD cameras, and this can be applied to photography as well. Simple cellophane does the job quite nicely though I imagine the proper dye filters would do the job even better. Anyways I hope you enjoy the video and give this experiment a go yourself if you are into vintage video cameras and photography.

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[jjovereats]

pretty good. now get a 180 Hz and produce a film shutter to do this 180 times a second.

:)

[Macchi202]

First track name please...