RCA Hawkeye Camera Confusion

[jhalphen]

Hi to all,
Hi DVtyro,

Ampex (where i worked), also signed up with the Panasonic Recam system.

I manned a small booth at the Cannes Film Festival to demo the advantages of component video recording for lightweight movie filming.

We had a 2 VCR setup, recorder/player + player only + editing desk and a camcorder to roam & shoot throughout the expo.

Amusing : weather was very hot and dry and the booth's carpet generated a lot of static electricity so desk unit transport controls often went berserk when the keyboard was touched, requiring machine shutdown & CPU reboot.
I got seriously concerned about the risk of permanent machine failure.

Solved the problem on the 2nd day by "watering" the carpet with a gardening can which killed the static buildup. Machines worked OK after this fix.
This amused people, word got around & people took photos of "the crazy sales engineer who waters his booth every morning" as i had to cross the entire expo hall with my can to fetch the water.

Fun times...

We never sold any Recams , at least in the EU.
Then in 1986 Ampex partnered with Sony on the Betacam bandwagon and what a hit that was...

Best Regards
jhalphen
Paris/France