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Writes Sergei Frolov:

I have two amateur television cameras. One is called the "Electronics 822", and the second - "Electronics 841". Both - Black and white. With microphone.
People often ask, and what to them is the film.
The answer is: the film is not one of them.
They connect the cable to your VCR and write directly to him.

"Electronics 822»





"Electronics 841»



At that time not yet widely used CCD and as the sensing element acted vidicon. In appearance resembles a regular radio tubes. It turned out that the principle of action at the vidicon the same as the film and television tubes. On the end of the photosensitive layer was placed, on which the image. The longer this layer of the light, the more it receives a charge. And then, as in television tubes, on the photosensitive layer extends beam in lines directing electrons on it and thereby causing discharge.

via sfrolov

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