Beta or UHS? Get the facts in 1976

[ARC Tech-109]

So how this all came about is I got a set of new satacon tubes for the M3A thanks to a friend at a local station and spent an evening setting everything up as best I could with the what I had, Hitachi V-089 vectorscope, V-099 waveform monitor and Sony multi standard monitor with the intent of getting some really good video to put on the Mpls cable access channel-35... that was the intent anyway. I ended up setting the green ped at 0 ire with the red & blue at 7.5 and didn't do a diff check or go over my work, all looked good on the scopes and I went with that. Next day in the car I do a quick auto black balance and everything does what it should and balanced against the green that it assumed was at 7.5 and set the levels accordingly, I didn't know this at the moment and assumed all was well until I did the playback that evening and saw my error and ended up chucking all 6 tapes into a drawer hoping they'd disappear forever... I was pi-- well you get the picture of why everything has a slight green cast.

The night shots were sometime later when I tried out a DXC-3000. I wanted to see what the night sensitivity was like, it was alright but the camera was too sparkly in normal light and edgy with proper lighting so I went back over the M3A and got it right but it ended up on the back burner in favor of a DXC-325/CA-325 package with a deep educational discount of $3500.

I was originally going for an urban documentary using the angles for a more in the moment feel, actually it worked well with the fast clips and motion thirty-some years later.