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Old 3rd Dec 2017, 9:51 pm   #14
red16v
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Default Re: Fifty Years of Colour Television in the UK

I used to work for Southern and remember the OB truck. In my entire career I never never ever ever wanted to work in OB’s. I wanted to know I would be laying my head at home every night! So I never worked in or on her.

I always thought the minifier idea was a bit crackers to be honest. I could understand the idea of getting as bright as possible image on the target to maximise signal to noise etc but other problems as a result.

Just to add to your excellent description of the Mark 8 and 9 GRB principles for interested parties reading - as a result, the camera was pretty blind to red/blue and blue/red transitions because as Paul explains most if not all of the edge definition (hf) was coming from the green channel. It didn’t matter much be because in ‘real life’ this doesn’t occur very often.
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