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Old 15th Mar 2019, 9:05 pm   #25
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Default Re: CCD camera history

I have 2 LDK90s in the collection, both still work, or did the last time I powered them up. Mine have had no faults since I got them. Just as well really I don't fancy mending them!! On the subject of the shutter, which is a bit of a concern, mine make a worrying whirring noise when rotated. As for the resolution my note say 604 horiz pixels, short of the 720 required for SD pictures. This shortfall did not stop the BBC from using them. https://www.tvcameramuseum.org/bts/ldk90/ldk90p1.htm

What Paul says about the military development is true, but we find out, as best we can what we can with the sources available. I am less interested the the military, more interested in the precursors of the broadcast cameras like the LDK90 and the RCA CCD-1 cameras.

The mention of the Domestic CCDs is interesting, I had assumed that they came after the broadcast use, mainly on unproven cost assumptions? Need to find the dates they were launched at.

Newlite4 post led me to this site http://imagesensors.org/past-worksho...ine-library-3/ which has conference reports going back to 1973.

More later, Brian
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