15 inch Rectangular CRT that used a gun like a 21FJ

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by earlyfilm

I owned one! Bought it new in 1965 to watch the space shots in color. It was a 16 inch and the first low priced set with a rectangular CRT and I hated the round color sets.

http://earlytelevision.org/21_inch_color.html#sears

It is the top two pictures in the 1960 year window.

WOW, there's something I never expected to hear from an older member.

Now there's an early tube color set I wouldn't mind having one of.

[earlyfilm]

Originally Posted by earlyfilm

Bought it new in 1965 . . . . I hated the round color sets.

Originally Posted by KV-1926R

WOW, there's something I never expected to hear from an older member.

I do not and I don't know of any other photographer/cameraman who likes to see their pictures cropped!

For the record:
Before junking the set in 2002, I went to my former parts supplier in Dayton to purchase the sync tube and the horiz osc tube along with capacitors to recap that section and was told that they could not supply the two tubes because they were no longer being made.

I knew nothing of this hobby at the time nor of the non-mainstream parts sources.

James

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by earlyfilm

I do not and I don't know of any other photographer/cameraman who likes to see their pictures cropped!

For the record:
Before junking the set in 2002, I went to my former parts supplier in Dayton to purchase the sync tube and the horiz osc tube along with capacitors to recap that section and was told that they could not supply the two tubes because they were no longer being made.

I knew nothing of this hobby at the time nor of the non-mainstream parts sources.

James

You should've tried Sears parts. They might still have some in stock.

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by earlyfilm

I do not and I don't know of any other photographer/cameraman who likes to see their pictures cropped!...
James

It's been discussed here before - the cropping of the round tubes hid a lot of bad corner effects produced by the early TK-41 cameras. By the mid 60's, improved precision IMOs and yokes were producing much better results as evidenced in the surviving tapes from the New York World's Fair RCA pavilion. But earlier stuff like the Bell Telephone Hour can be pretty ugly.

[Note: this is a term from the oxymoronic picture rating scale:
1) Pretty
2) Ugly
3) Pretty Ugly ]

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by earlyfilm

I do not and I don't know of any other photographer/cameraman who likes to see their pictures cropped!

I hear ya. My camera is on me at all times.