RCA Hawkeye Camera Confusion

[Adlershof]

Originally Posted by BrianSummers

were RCA using up old labels??

Or maybe (that's of course entirely speculation) using up a stock of already made tubes? Their PR reads as if the HC-2 used different Saticon tubes than the HC-1 while the Plumbicon option had, interestingly, been removed.

Could it be that after the HC-2 they withdrew their Hawkeye recording system altogether? Judging from the body case styles I would call the CCD-1 a successor of the HC-2, but there is no mention of a dockable recorder anymore.


Btw, I find it nice how they bragged about the CCD-1 being content with 30 lux. I think the BVP-3 was, too.

And it would be interesting to see real footage of the CCD-1, in particular in comparison to the BVP-5 (which still had shortcomings, in particular the ugly red smear). I think it was somewhere else where I read the account of a cameraman who discussed the CCD-1 with a RCA representative and told him "my Ikegami 79 is shooting circles around it".