U-Matic anyone? (working machines/personal expericences)

[jr_tech]

Red problem ? I have owned several u-matic machines over the years and still have a portable (VO 6800) with dead battery packs around somewhere. I don’t remember seeing a problem with the red on these machines, could you explain what the symptoms were?

jr

[Telecolor 3007]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

Red problem ? I have owned several u-matic machines over the years and still have a portable (VO 6800) with dead battery packs around somewhere. I don’t remember seeing a problem with the red on these machines, could you explain what the symptoms were?

jr

Read about this on wikipedia and some one mentioned that it seen it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGNXwZooiPc

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

Read about this on wikipedia and some one mentioned that it seen it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGNXwZooiPc

Interesting... from Wikipeda:
"The format also had difficulty reproducing the colour red, and red images would be noisier than other colours in the spectrum. For this reason, on-camera talent was discouraged from wearing red clothing that would call attention to the technical shortcoming."

I see loss of resolution on the over saturated red flower near the end of the clip, not sure if it is noise. The "red wall" special effect looks odd, but who knows what effect they were trying to produce.
I thought the model's lipstick looked quite good.

Note, this is a Sony UK production, so likely it was not NTSC.
Wrinkled tape was a fairly common problem, however.

jr