80's Video Camera, Proffesional

[Jenbug]

I was just wondering if anyone might know of where I might get a 80's style proffesional video camera, I'm talking like the ones that would have been used on a music video set or such. It doesn't have to be in working order neither does it need to be one literally from the 80's it can be a stage one.

We just seem to be having no luck at all in getting hold of one.

 

Thanks

[Peter F]

I was just wondering if anyone might know of where I might get a 80's style proffesional video camera, I'm talking like the ones that would have been used on a music video set or such. It doesn't have to be in working order neither does it need to be one literally from the 80's it can be a stage one.

We just seem to be having no luck at all in getting hold of one.

 

Thanks

 

Search for

VHS Camera

on ebay.

 

Or

Sign up for your local Freecycle group and ask on there.

(Same applies for your mobile phone search)

 

Cheers,

Peter

[boatman]

I was just wondering if anyone might know of where I might get a 80's style proffesional video camera, I'm talking like the ones that would have been used on a music video set or such. It doesn't have to be in working order neither does it need to be one literally from the 80's it can be a stage one.

We just seem to be having no luck at all in getting hold of one.

 

Thanks

 

The National Media Museum must be virtually on your doorstep. If you get no luck there, try The Television Broadcast Camera Museum.

[Jenbug]

Thanks. I know two of our managers are going to the national media museum this weekend. I'll check out the television broadcast camera museum :-)

[paulears]

When you say '80s video camera - do you mean a shoulder mount one - or a studio type with a box style lens on a bit pedestal? What are you trying to achieve.

 

If it's not a studio type, then there are always loads on ebay - The Ikegami 79 series was introduced in the seventies, and this shape camera is the same as we have today. In fact, many of the switches and knobs are in the same place today.

 

If you want the old fashioned box shape then ebay have this one.

 

There are a few shoulder type cameras too, but all a bit expensive as they're working.

[Jenbug]

ummm, well its whatever would have been used on the set of a proffesional music video at the time?

 

But I'll have a look around from the details you've given me, thats a great help thanks

[sleah]

I don't believe it!

 

I binned a Panasonic WV777 shoulder mount camera (only) last year that had been in an attic for 10 years not working It was made in or around 1983/4

 

I have an old probably knackered Panasonic full-sized VHS camcorder booting around, from around 1990 but it is only really domestic type kit.

 

Sorry :)

[paulears]

So the question is, do you want studio types or hand helds, or both? Pop videos wer/are made with both. If you want it to look like Top of the Pops, then studio camera with big boxy lenses on grey heavy expensive pedestals (NOT tripods).

 

what level of realism do you want? If you wish it to be deadly accurate then a second hand ped is likely to cost you a grand, a pan/tilt head for it at least another £100. Would it matter if you had a chunky domestic old camcorder on a tripod, or sitting on somebodies shoulder with a bit of cable 'pretending' to come out the back?

 

More details will enable more suggestions. If you don't know what you want/need it's difficult for us.

[Jenbug]

Ok I've had more of a chat with my tutor and we actually need too. The mention in production meetings has been like the old TOTP type set up style but when we got more into it we decided we would go for just having them on shoulders and another on a kinda fake track (they were saying about a tripod with wheels? and a track not functioning but looks as if it is)

 

But I think right now whatever we could get that would look realistic and as if we were in a studio setting will do as long as it's 1980's since I think we're starting to get a little desperate now ** laughs out loud **.

[deranged-angel]

Hi Jenbug,

I think the first thing you need to do is get a clear idea in your head of what you are after. Make sure you know what it is supposed to look like. That way, it will be easier when trying to source items. There might be some recorded stuff from the 80s showing video cameras, theres bound to be an enthusiast somewhere on the world wide web who might let you borrow one or know where you can get one. When you have a better idea, ebay will probably be your friend.

Also think about how much the camera will be seen by the audience. As Paulears said, is it vital that is looks deadly accurate?

I really think that if you have a better idea of how you want it to look, you'll find exactly what you are looking for. Also, link up a couple of pics on here so people can tell you if they've seen one around. I've no idea what an 80s camera looks like but if you show me a pic, I might think "oooh, I saw one of those in such and such a place."

 

Good luck!

 

Emma.

[Bobbsy]

Well, by the latter half of the 80s, cameras weren't looking TOO different to the ones you see now. For that reason, to make the point it's the 80s, I'd go with cameras that were released in the late 70s. Since pro gear has a 5 to 7 year (at least) service life, gear that a company bought in, say, 1979 would still be in use for most of the 80s.

 

For the hand held camera, one of the most common (as has been mentioned was the Ikegami HL79:

 

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c188/Bobbsy/HL79.jpg

 

In your sort of studio setting, it would have a hefty multicore cable hanging out of the back.

 

For the big studio camera on a dolly or track, there are lots to chose from but the Philips PC60 was used all over the world and, for many people would immediately say "old camera":

 

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c188/Bobbsy/PC60.jpg

 

If you can find or create anything that looks like these beasts, you won't be far off.

 

(Sadly I remember both of these, not to mention their predecessors!)

 

Bob

[boatman]

Other cameras in wide use in the 80's at the BBC Television Centre were the Link 110 and EMI 2001. Fairly easy to make mock-ups of either.

 

http://www.tvcameramuseum.org/link/110/pictures/link110-45deg750c10.jpg

 

http://www.tvcameramuseum.org/emi/2001/pictures/emi2001a%2045deg750c10.jpg

[DangerousMark]

Ah, pants mate! We skipped a couple of old 80s VHS cameras (good'uns too, you'd be paying a grand or more to replicate the functionality with modern kit, but more than we need and just too heavy) only a few weeks ago...... Panasonic somethings. I've had actual set top VCRs that were smaller and lighter I think!

 

Mind you it does seem we've kept a couple back, if we're chucking them at a later date I'll see if I can keep hold in case you're still in need, ** laughs out loud **

[LORAC]

Got a JVC KY17 in stores. I've emailed OP in case they still need one.

http://www.likholetov.ru/pdf/10169.pdf