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Originally Posted by Adlershof

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However, some sources really exaggerate things when stating that it was a completely foolish idea to develop a colour camera with Orthicon tubes at all. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF_9wRVnazQ (The poor results on the 1964-1965 exhibit mentioned above came from a Vidicon camera.)
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That clip shows the TK-41 quality, but unfortunately also shows the edge ringing you could get with quad tape (look at the right edge of the black trousers, for example).

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I do not know of anyone besides Sandy who has reported bad color at the RCA exhibit in New York. The little bit of surviving tape looks excellent.
The cameras were all TK41 image orthicon, and, although I don't know for a fact, may have been the later version with prism blocks instead thin dichroic mirrors, plus less noisy solid state video preamps.

Even the "see yourself" camera at the RCA exhibit was a TK-41.

http://nywf64.com/rca09.shtml

They definitely were not vidicon cameras. The only vidicon live cameras RCA ever made apparently went only to a few military operations and universities (hospital surgery rooms, microsope cameras, and copy-stand uses for displaying maps and such), and the color TV exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. They were so light hungry and had such strong motion smear that no one would consider them for studio use.