Aleksandar TodorovicChairman of the Board, Kompani
5.3 Electronic News Gathering and Electronic Field Production
5.3.1 Electronic News Gathering
ENG – or Electronic News Gathering – is, as its name suggests, the gathering or collection of news stories intended for broadcast during different television newscasts. This technique is based on the use of portable units – camcorders, which combine electronic colour cameras and recorders in one single unit. In most cases the recorder part is based on analogue or digital magnetic tape recording, but in the 1990s other recording supports have appeared on the market, such as retractable computer hard disks.
A quarter of a century ago ENG was a great novelty. Like every novelty, it was greeted by some ...
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