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Old 04-29-2012, 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Dave A View Post
Dig back further and find an old consumer tube camera. Early RCA CC-xx series for starters. Gives you the old look. Many had a separate power supply with the NTSC out you need. From there in to any modulator for Ch 3 or 4.
Now that's an idea - the vidicon lag and light required would be most realistic - but I'm not sure the color would be representative. The single-stripe tube cameras had pretty awful color rendition due to the non-linearity of the vidicon causing the color channels to intermodulate.
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