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        This video is from Troy Walters in Australia. It seems that Troy was curious to test his new [Sony AVC-3200CE] vidicon camera outdoors. It starts out with a very nice picture until Troy decided to check out the sun. This does not work very well. The sun will instantly damage the target of a vidicon tube. This image is permanently "burned" into face of the tube! Remarkably, Troy recorded this one time event. Thanks, Troy! Original posting: 020909, updated to YouTube 110516. Actual video (C)2009 Troy Walters

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       This video is a demonstration of, and the back story about, a remarkable hand built vidicon camera I purchased on Ebay. The story falls into the "small world!" category. The desinger of the camera, a Mr. Rolf Spies (pronounced like 'freeze', forgive my mispronounciation in the video), was the manager of the Motorola EVR video film player manufacturing team! I hope you enjoy this video as much as I did uncovering the back story through the generosity of Rolf's son.

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       This is Labguy's answer to operating an old Sony portapac camera that requires external sync to operate. It's kind of nice to know that I can still whip out a sync generator from scratch when the need arises. Marked down and on sale at my favorite local surplus store, this camera was just too good to pass up!