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Philco-Pete · 13th Mar 2019, 8:38 pm

BVP-5 was the first 3-CCD SONY camera - when I was working for BBC tv in the eighties my Dept had BVP-5P s/n 10006 ( ie the sixth off the line- and the first one at the beeb I think) I remember spending many night shoots in Bristol on I the second series of “Casualty” because the HL79s used the previous year couldn’t handle street lights without fabulous comet tails. It became known that we had this new fangled CCD camera that didn’t suffer in the same way and it ( and I) got lent to them. We managed to get it in the first place for mounted action shots where the BVP-3 tube version suffered from microphony.
I took that camera all over the place, strung under Red Arrows, rally cars powerboats and the like.
Happy days
Pete
( we also had a DXC3000P for some jobs)

13th Mar 2019, 8:38 pm	#18
Philco-Pete Tetrode Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Chesham, Bucks. UK. Posts: 75	Re: CCD camera history BVP-5 was the first 3-CCD SONY camera - when I was working for BBC tv in the eighties my Dept had BVP-5P s/n 10006 ( ie the sixth off the line- and the first one at the beeb I think) I remember spending many night shoots in Bristol on I the second series of “Casualty” because the HL79s used the previous year couldn’t handle street lights without fabulous comet tails. It became known that we had this new fangled CCD camera that didn’t suffer in the same way and it ( and I) got lent to them. We managed to get it in the first place for mounted action shots where the BVP-3 tube version suffered from microphony. I took that camera all over the place, strung under Red Arrows, rally cars powerboats and the like. Happy days Pete ( we also had a DXC3000P for some jobs)