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Originally Posted by Aussie Bloke

I can easily say 1 inch vidicon B&W pictures look absolutely superb with fine detail!!!

Of course. When looking at the screen on the signal tower you could even at night make out the level crossing when you switched on these six 400 watts lamps the friendly electrician had added. Some drivers would bleat, but what did they know about this marvellous piece of equipment that two minutes later still showed the train headlights??


Seriously: A broadcasting Vidicon looked not even too bad when mixed with the big IOs, like here from 0:25 til 0:30 (who still does such audience close-ups nowadays?):
https://my.mail.ru/mail/alvem/video/43/2339.html

The camera itself can be seen in this longer but ruined excerpt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbAfwaGjQQI

This is from 1972. The haloing surprised me when seeing it in the mid-eighties on our B&W TV, since I would not have assumed that this was no colour production yet.