Video demo of my 1978 JVC GC-3300E colour camera (part 1)

I've made a video demonstration of my 1978 JVC GC-3300E two vidicon tube colour video camera in which you'll see yours truly in front of the camera talking about the camera and its features. I had to use two flood lights to get a half decently lighted picture and I also had to ramp up the brightness and contrast further in my video editor, these cameras are low on sensitivity in low lighting conditions. Also later in the video the viewfinder shat itself causing the video output signal to go unstable, so that will be a restoration project for the future. It took quite a few takes and a fair bit of editing to make a half decent video demo and it appears I sound as I'm lacking of confidence while talking about the camera, that's only because I had no teleprompting to help me get clear on exactly what I wanted to say and I had mental blocks galore trying to say off the top of my head what I know about the camera. Anyways this is me talking about this great vintage piece of technology and this is part 1, part 2 I switch to the Sony handycam and show the camera itself and it's associated power unit.

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• 1978
• JVC
• GC-3300E
• colour
• color
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• gc3300
• gc3300e

[GanEdenAustralia]

What do you use to capture to digital mate?

[troysvisualarts]

@GanEdenAustralia I have the camera connected to the DVD recorder via the audio/video outputs of the camera's power unit. Then I record to the DVD recorder's hard drive, copy the recording to a rewritable DVD and then copy it to the computer, then I extract the VOB files, join them together and edit them in MPEG Video Wizard to make the final product.

[troysvisualarts]

@GanEdenAustralia Also for the safety of the DVD recorder, I have a VHS connected between the camera output and the DVD recorder so it strips the DC voltages as older cameras output a bit of DC as well as the AC signal which anything over 1V DC can zap the DVD recorder's inputs which is what happened to mine. I recommend this even with capture cards too and any other digital recording device.

[rtbvhsrip]

Check out my footage from a GRUNDIG Saticon camera. It was recorded directly to a DVX100 DV camcorder. Now i use an GVD-1000E portable DV recorder and a 12V battery pack.... By the way, you can "upgrade" your tube camera to look modern: Get a hotshoe adapter from Ebay, a cheap chinese TFT video monitor for 20 USD ;)

[DrCassette]

This is a very nice vintage camera!

[GanEdenAustralia]

@troysvisualarts Are VIB files quite easy to extract from a DVD RW? I was using one of these Canopus AVDC devices for converting analogue to digital as I have heaps of old cameras like yours and 80s camcorders.

Any particular DVD recorder you'd recommend Troy?

[GanEdenAustralia]

@troysvisualarts Interesting. SO basically it would fry the circuits if you didn't use the VCR as a regulator kind of thing?

I have found that when using digital camcorder and connecting the Firewire from a PC to the camera that both must be switched off because of the same issue? Certain pro camcorders have had their boards friend because the Firewire port sent static to the camcorders input. Hmmm

[GanEdenAustralia]

Pretty good image for that age camera.