Towards full quality CCD studio cameras: the last steps

Since the introduction of lightweight CCD cameras, these have rapidly acquired a large part of the market for news gathering equipment. Their advantages in operation are so important that despite performances sometimes inferior to those of tube cameras, customers' choice is now always for CCD, in an ENG application, which on occasion has led the press to write: CCD=ENG. Since the introduction of the first solid state sensors advances have been considerable, specifications have been much improved and characteristics are now comparable with tubes. Whilst manufacturers' catalogues are now offering a wide range of lightweight cameras, the situation for top of the range studio cameras today is totally the opposite, tube cameras alone being available.<
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