Perhaps the thrill of finally seeing CBS sequential color live clouded my objectivity. But I do not recall observing color fringing on the small-screen, operational 1951 CBS-color equipment at the 2004 ETF convention. Small screen is probably the operational word; field sequential color on today’s hi-acreage bottles would change the picture.
Photographing the historic event proved to be more difficult with a moving image, however. It may have had more to do with shutter-speed interacting with frame-rate than something else such as color fringing. But, when we paused the DVD player supplying the NTSC video to the transcoder, our results were more successful.
If you haven’t already seen it, here's a link to some of the best photos (save time, skip over the prattle before the first picture). Thanks again to Reeferman who served as cameraman.
http://home.att.net/~pldexnis/potpou...color2004.html
BTW, the x-hatch pattern conundrum noted in the text has been solved: nothing technical, just a distorted reflection of the museum's ceiling!