Thread: Konica CV-301
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Old 01-02-2011, 08:43 AM
Wigwam Jones Wigwam Jones is offline
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Originally Posted by Aussie Bloke View Post
That's a neat little camera you have there. I happen to have a camera similar to yours except it's a Sharp XC-54 made around 1983 and it uses a colour striped newvicon tube. The images from my camera are not bad, a bit less rich than the others and the reds look like magentas, apart from that quite a decent image during a sunny day. In lowlights they do give smeary images and less colour as do a lot of other cameras using colour striped newvicon/saticon tubes. My Sharp XC-54 can be viewed on my site on this page http://www.troysvintagevideo.741.com/xc54.html . I've added a couple of frame grabs to show the kinds of pictures this camera makes. I once used this camera as a car cam by strapping it to the passenger seat head rest, the playback looked pretty cool.
Thank you, that's very nice! Wonky colors and some smear will actually help for the project I have in mind, though I may convert the video I take into B&W as being more appropriate to the era.
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