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Old 12-07-2016, 08:42 AM
Chip Chester Chip Chester is offline
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They would use the cheapest or oldest one that produced an acceptable signal, and would keep running. Probably an ENG camera that was put out to pasture by the new Ikegami HL-79. The list of things they didn't care about would be huge: don't need viewfinder or remote focus/iris, lens option is negotiable by tweaking setup, image lag would be imperceptible due to slow panning speed and no subject movement (except for the second hand). Lighting could be anything needed for acceptable image. Even a good-for-the-times surveillance camera could do it.

What are you trying to do? If you're trying to replicate the functionality, you can use any camera you deem acceptable. If you're making a museum installation that works, throw a budget out and state what you have available to get started. If you want it to look old, but work with modern signal quality and reliability, you can hack in a current camera to an already-empty shell. (Don't empty out a shell of a working classic camera just for this, though.)

If there was a pre-engineered system for cable TV or motel video distribution systems, then you might fish around wherever old motel owners hang out. Chances of finding a complete unit would be pretty slim, I would think. But you would have your answers, then.

Chip
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