[Avid-L2] Re: Way back machine... quiz for the 'early adopters' over 50...

It certainly was fun or I wouldn't still be doing it. I started with a 3 camera B&W studio we built in high school when I was 13. Talking about open reel Sony deck here's my favorite story. A guy shot with the open reel deck air to air a squadron of planes. When he went to play back the tape later all the planes were upside down and flying backward. WTF? He later discover he had threaded the tape upside down but because the pitch stability of the flying squadron there was some harmonic close enough to control track frequency to fool the deck into locking with the tape threaded upside down. Voila upside and backwards video before an ADO, Squeeze Zoom or Quantel DPS was a twinkle in someone's eyes.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Tom McDonnell <ltr54@...> wrote:
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> > That was U-matic.
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> The 5800's where U-Matic. The Sony Industrial Betamax decks I learned on where I think SLO-340's. They where Betamax format recording at the one hour speed and had flying erase heads for video insert editing and two channel audio. They where controlled by the RM-440.
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> John I cut news pkg's with BVU-200's and V0-2800's. That's when I learned what "sweating bullets" meant. I also carried a BVU-100 and 150 when shooting back in 1981. I also had the honor two shoot with a Ike79 tied to a "portable" Ampex 1" machine. My first introduction to portable video was in 1976 with a Sony B&W camera and portable 1/2inch open reel recorder. Total running time on full batts 10min. The camera and deck didn't have the color modules for color recording.
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> You know when I look back on all this it really was/is fun watching and taking a part in the evolution of our industry.
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> TMcD
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