Image Tubes and Techniques in Television Film Camera Chains

In this country the iconoscope is used almost universally for motion picture film camera chains. In Europe the flying-spot scanner has recently come into extensive use. Other pickup devices, storage and nonstorage, such as the image orthicon, image iconoscope and image dissector tube, have been used experimentally or in a limited commercial way. The characteristics of each of these tubes and their associated equipment are discussed, and certain advantages are evaluated with respect to such factors as signal-to-noise ratio, spurious signals, spectral response and transfer characteristic.

Print ISSN

0898-042X

Published

1951-01

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J05093