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That said, ENG was the obvious way forward for the news environment. Interestingly, programmes like Only Fools would shoot electronically in the studio and then use film outside. This carried on for quite some time.
Yes, though news had no hard and fast minimum technical standards to adhere to. The IBA COP merely
said that 'the best quality should be reasonably obtained', which was a recognition that the pictures themselves were more important than the ultimate quality. The Beeb adopted a similar policy, and really that still lives on today with images sourced from phone cameras etc.
Non programming was a different kettle of fish, and first generation ENG that used U-Matic was a big no-no
for programme production (and rightly so) so 1980s location electronic acquisition involved portable 1inch VTR formats, and portable (rather than smaller ENG) cameras. The Sony BVP-330 and Ikegami 79 were really the
first 'crossover' cameras, that were good enough for production, and light enough for ENG use.
Wasn't until Betacam SP and Digibeta when camcorders could be routinely used for non news productions.
I do agree though the film inserts for location shoots in 70s and 80s drama and comedy, were dire. You'd have been better off using ENG in many cases quite honestly.
Yes - because the BBC didn't have the IBA COP to worry about - they were able to use Betacam (pre-SP) and UMatic as film-replacements for non-News stuff possibly a bit before ITV did. And 1st Generation UMatic edited to 1" wasn't THAT bad.
It was also pretty common to use VPR 5s (the very compact 1" portable VTR) with a Sony 330 or Ike 79 as a PSC crew (not a camcorder but pretty close)
noggin
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That said, ENG was the obvious way forward for the news environment. Interestingly, programmes like Only Fools would shoot electronically in the studio and then use film outside. This carried on for quite some time.
Yes, though news had no hard and fast minimum technical standards to adhere to. The IBA COP merely
said that 'the best quality should be reasonably obtained', which was a recognition that the pictures themselves were more important than the ultimate quality. The Beeb adopted a similar policy, and really that still lives on today with images sourced from phone cameras etc.
Non programming was a different kettle of fish, and first generation ENG that used U-Matic was a big no-no
for programme production (and rightly so) so 1980s location electronic acquisition involved portable 1inch VTR formats, and portable (rather than smaller ENG) cameras. The Sony BVP-330 and Ikegami 79 were really the
first 'crossover' cameras, that were good enough for production, and light enough for ENG use.
Wasn't until Betacam SP and Digibeta when camcorders could be routinely used for non news productions.
I do agree though the film inserts for location shoots in 70s and 80s drama and comedy, were dire. You'd have been better off using ENG in many cases quite honestly.
Yes - because the BBC didn't have the IBA COP to worry about - they were able to use Betacam (pre-SP) and UMatic as film-replacements for non-News stuff possibly a bit before ITV did. And 1st Generation UMatic edited to 1" wasn't THAT bad.
It was also pretty common to use VPR 5s (the very compact 1" portable VTR) with a Sony 330 or Ike 79 as a PSC crew (not a camcorder but pretty close)
