Recent Development of a Broadcast-Quality CCD Camera

Sadayuki Ikeda, Setsuo Yamamoto, Akiyoshi Kohno, Takao Kamata, Mikio Shimizu, Richard Dienhart

The use of CCD technology in broadcast-quality cameras has led to practical applications that offer many advantages over pickup tubes, including smaller size, lighter weight, greater durability, lower power consumption, and absence of burn-in, comet tails, and sticking. Two problems with the use of CCDs have been vertical smearing when shooting bright subjects and lower resolution than with pickup tubes. A camera having an improved solid-state image sensor which virtually eliminates vertical smearing, and a Dual Green system which brings resolution equal to the level of that delivered by pickup tubes has been developed. A new electronic shutter that achieves dynamic resolution comparable to that of motion-picture cameras is also described.

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Published
1986-11
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J04082