Konica CV-301

[Aussie Bloke]

That's a neat little camera you have there. I happen to have a camera similar to yours except it's a Sharp XC-54 made around 1983 and it uses a colour striped newvicon tube. The images from my camera are not bad, a bit less rich than the others and the reds look like magentas, apart from that quite a decent image during a sunny day. In lowlights they do give smeary images and less colour as do a lot of other cameras using colour striped newvicon/saticon tubes. My Sharp XC-54 can be viewed on my site on this page http://www.troysvintagevideo.741.com/xc54.html . I've added a couple of frame grabs to show the kinds of pictures this camera makes. I once used this camera as a car cam by strapping it to the passenger seat head rest, the playback looked pretty cool.