Howdy do! New here.

[Beauregard42]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

One thing: a vidicon camera would be much easier as a starting project than an image orthicon, but I don't know the availability of working vidicons.

I've been reading about camera tubes lately, and I found that vidicons were very very laggy under low light levels, and tended to get sunburns easily.
I don't have 1000000000 watt stage lights in my garage, but there is a big one in the sky during the day.