CHAPTER 5.3 Television Camera Systems

MICHAEL BERGERON AND STEPHEN MAHRER

Panasonic Broadcast and Television Systems Company Secaucus,, New Jersey

INTRODUCTION

This chapter discusses the inner workings and applications of modern broadcast cameras. Because digital standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) technologies have increasingly become standard equipment in most production and broadcast facilities, descriptions of National Television System Committee (NTSC), tube-based, or otherwise analog systems are provided only as reference points in describing the newer digital, solid-state systems and standards. Many components of complete video systems are described in general terms so as to encompass the wider range of possibilities in today’s ...

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