Early CCD Camera History

[Adlershof]

Originally Posted by BrianSummers

The first camera that had a performance good enough to be offered as a broadcast camera was the RCA CCD-1 introduced in 1983.

That's an opportunity to put one question on the table: Can someone point to actual video of this camera, of course if possible with bright lights appearing in frame? I wonder how its picture looked already for years, after reading a comment from a camera operator how he told the RCA representative at NAB that "my Ikegami is shooting circles around it".

Would be also interesting to compare it with the first CCD broadcast camera from Sony, the BVP-5 with its ugly red smear and colorimetry inferior to the BVP-3 with Saticons (let alone Plumbicon cameras). Here I never ceased to wonder what caused the smear to be red, considering that CCDs had rather too much than too little sensitivity to red, so there would be no apparent need for a particular boost of this channel.