Towards full quality CCD studio cameras: the last steps

Since the introduction of lightweight CCD cameras, these have rapidly acquired a large part of the market for news gathering equipment. Their advantages in operation are so important that despite performances sometimes inferior to those of tube cameras, customers´ choice is now always for CCD, in an ENG application, which on occasion has led the press to write: CCD=ENG. Since the introduction of the first solid state sensors advances have been considerable, specifications have been much improved and characteristics are now comparable with tubes. Whilst manufacturers´ catalogues are now offering a wide range of lightweight cameras, the situation for top of the range studio cameras today is totally the opposite, tube cameras alone being available