Are vintage TV /video cameras a thing of interest?

[Dave A]

Welcome and go for it Pio. I have a lot of fun with vintage home cameras and they don't take up a lot of space. I have a color RCA CC002 from about 1978 in great working order with the striped vidicon tube. I figured out how to set it up on a broadcast grey scale chart and how to adjust the tube back focus for different lenses. The RCA CKC021 was still a tube pickup with the bonus of a color beam index viewfinder...not Indextron but the same by Hitachi. And the CC030 is the same but now a chip imager. The viewfinders have not aged well however. They work but the color is not great. Somewhere is a RCA BW camera from the CC002 era. A terrible camera. And I have two early Sony HVC-2200 Trinicon color cameras and another unknown model with Japanese markings on the controls. All work. The trick to them is to find the now pricey Sony CMA-1010A adaptor to convert the Sony 14 pin format to the RCA 10 pin format to use with the very common RCA DC adaptors with video and audio out. A caution to look for is scale/mold growing on the UV filter behind the lens and in front of the tube, if the lens can be removed (C-mount). No way to fix the coating. Ask the seller to send a photo of the filter. It should be light blue and clear. There were some early VHS (not portables) decks that had the 10 pin connector built in for home recording.