Microcam I: A New Concept in the Design of a Portable Color Camera for Broadcast Applications

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY
Doc Type: Conference Paper
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 1976, No. 17, pp. 21–34
Abstract: During the eight years since the original Minicam, a proliferation of small color cameras has shown the tremendous utility of a broadcast quality camera that can be carried on the back and shoulders of a strong cameraman. The recent upsurge in electronic news gathering ENG has generated the need for a camera with the weight and operating simplicity of a movie camera, so that the cameraperson can be chosen for his or her journalistic ability rather than for sheer strength and technical competence. The Microcam described in this paper was developed by the same CBS Laboratories–now Thomson-CSF Laboratories–CBS Television Network team that developed the Minicam and the project benefited greatly from that experience. The project originated under the CBS Corporate Research Program and later was jointly sponsored by Thomson-CSF S. A. and the CBS Television Network.
Publication Date: 1976-01-01
DOI: 10.5594/M00550
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/M00550
Author(s): Renville H. McMannThomson-CSF Stamford, Connecticut
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Renville H. McMann, Jr. has been President of Thomson-CSF Laboratories since its acquisition from CBS in May 1975. Formerly President and Director of Engineering for CBS Laboratories. He has received four Emmy nominations, an Emmy Citation and an Emmy for CBS. He invented the Color Image Enhancer now used universally throughout the broadcast industry. He was responsible for the CBS effort on the Lunar Orbiter Photo-transmission system and the Appollo Color TV System. Recipient of the Armstrong Medal for contributions to communications technology. He is a Fellow of the SMPTE, fellow Yale Engineering Society, past president Radio Club of America, member of National Institute of Social Sciences. Received B.E. from Yale University.
Clyde W. SmithThomson-CSF Stamford, Connecticut
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Clyde W. Smith is Director, Audio/Video Engineering, Thomson-CSF Laboratories, and has responsibility for the Microcam program. He was Senior Project Engineer at CBS Laboratories on the Video portion of the original Minicam camera. Designed many of the video products of CBS Laboratories including the Color Corrector, Image Enhancer, and Encoded Signal Chroma Key. Holds patents in the video field including one on automatically correcting differential phase and gain. Graduated from Manhattan College with a B.E.E.
Copyright: © 1976 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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