What’s Inside a 35 Years Old TV Camera?
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- The part that I cut out from the video : • What's Inside a TV Cam...
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00:00 Intro
00:46 Context
02:38 The Outside
04:55 The Inside
09:10 Inside a modern $212,000 Lens
10:51 Trying to fix & resurrect the camera
13:15 Field Testing / Footage
15:08 Final Words
Credits & Big Thanks :
Camera : Olivier Coll, Coralie Brosse, Charlotte Kopp, Claire Lepercq
Sound Mixing : Jean-Charles Wintrebert
Special Thanks : Corentin Couasnon, Jean-Luc Girard
Music :
Thomas Bergersen - We Are Legends
Thomas Bergersen - Mountain Call
Thomas Bergersen - Apollo
Courtesy of Extreme Music France
Emmett Cooke - Master your Emotions
Emmanuel Jacob - Gaining Ground
Immersive Music - Learning to Fly
Cosmo Lawson - Breaking & Entering
Chris Phaze - Furious
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This was a crazy heck of a ride working on that video! Let me know your thoughts in the comments, what you would like to see next, it's always nice to read your comments :) This video was supposed to be made in 15 days... ended up taking more than two months.
As you dig into the subject you keep learning and falling into sub-rabbit holes so I really wanted to master the subject as much as possible before starting working on the video, for the sake of accuracy. Feel free to correct anything that is wrong!
This unsponsored video cost me well over $5000 (the UA107 lens rental alone was $1300 ) , and I don't think the TH-cam money will pay it back even with a million views, so if you like you can show support by donating a Super Thanks! Will mention all Super Thanks contributors in the next video credits :) And if I still don't pay back the expenses don't worry it's a passion project anyways. I hope this super thanks system will allow me to make more frequent content.
Otherwise, you can also just sit back, watch... and enjoy the flight!
It is an absolute pleasure to experience your work. Thank you.
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Really great video!
Can you please try to adapt the old Lens to a modern camera? That would be sooooooooo interesting to see!
@@bastelbude_ I second this. But I would also love to see some more recordings with the old camera. Like: go to an amateur sports game and set it up or at a race track. It is really amazing what you did there and I can only guess just how much work you had to put into it. And last but not least the incredible quality of the video you put together, the process, the storyboard, the editing, beautifully done.
Insane/Amazing/Mindblowing Quality Content. The sound design, the lighting, the composition of the shots, the motion design, the editing, the research... Everything's awesome!
Fricking excellent channel! You should have your own serie on a streaming service like Netflix
This was epic. The content is very unique, informative and entertaining. And the editing is extremely professional, especially the way you incorporate music and cut to the beat. Thanks for making this. Keep up the good work.
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As someone who watches a ton of teardown videos, I actually can't stand this editing. Dark room with a flashlight, every single shot is panned, and it's edited like an action film. It's just my opinion so if people enjoy it, great, but I want technical content not a hollywood movie.
@@GTechno13 Agreed, as a motion designer I honestly think it's excessive, and unnecessary for most of the scenes here. Same goes for the soundfx, it's a camera disassambly which is definitely very interesting as it's not a camera you can find around, but at the end of the day it's a camera, not a movie. you don't need whoosh sfx when taking out a card out of it's slot.
@@GTechno13 10000% agree. The only reason I’m leaving this commment is I saw OP reply and scratched my head.
I don’t know enough about this stuff to know what bugged me about it but you nailed it. It’s like he was trying to hard. Just talk about the thing and show it.
I don’t need the dark room with flash light and the over production. Like he was trying too hard.
@@codycast it’s a tribute to the greatness of human engineering in something that usually is so mundane (a tv camera)
I find it very cool that he used this kind of approach to emphasize the greatness that you can find in things we take for granted (tv shots)
This has got to be one of most well produced and engaging TH-cam videos I've ever seen. The aesthetic and flow of the video was incredibly captivating. It oozed adventure and exploration. It captured a journey between man and technology. Your fascination and appreciation for the glorious machine that it is, really came through for me.
This is just simply incredible and I can't wait to see even more similar videos from you.
If anything, I think the video of the repair could've been included in this. It is ultimately part of the journey.
I can’t believe I watched the full length video without even getting bored. The production quality is TV documentary level. Keep up the good work.
french quality😉
It's literally just 16 minutes long
You would have been better off watching 68 15 second shorts. And forgetting what you watched within minutes.
5:35 Yep, that’s exactly it. We call those “bodge wires” (“bodge” = fix), and they’re done to correct problems or make modifications to a circuit. It’s surprisingly common to find those even today, mostly on high-price, low-volume products where a) you don’t go through tons of prototypes before going into production, and b) it’s cheaper to perform the labor than to scrap the board and replace it with a new version. Typically, the next production batch of boards will then have the modification integrated. I’m actually doing an electronics technician apprenticeship right now, and doing modifications with bodge wires is something we are expressly taught how to do.
Give this man an award. You had me from the beginning all the way to the end. Absolutely blown away by the level of research, story telling and video quality. Keep it up!
Talk about low standards
100/ right
OMG Man, this is so refreshing, one of the best videos I've watched in TH-cam since launch, very well tought, camera angles, the timing, sound design, 1000/10
Thank you so much, this type of content makes me excited to create!
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04:35 The TRIAX connector. That cable carried everything: power and video signal. CCU stands for Camera Control Unit
05:42 often are not necessarily issues. They are updates. The bulletins where it was illustrated which kind of HW changes had to be made in order to work properly with new firmware (generally released in EPROMs).
I think you were able to get the Service Manuals (I hope, they can make you save a lot of time)
nobody cares man
interesting note, thanks!
Was it even Triax? These cameras often needed an adaptor cable from Triax to whatever this connection is.
This video was incredible! I really admire how much care and detail you put into this - It was so fun watching you learn about the system with us. Thank you so much for making this and preserving this history.
Mind blowing stuff man, from the editing to the actual content
yeah literaly mind blowing cus I got epilepsy from that intro
@@kobalov1 NOICE !
This was absolutely breathtaking to watch. The amount of work that's gone into this is incredible.
I'm blown away at the level of your expertise in so many fields - from amazing cinematography, editing, and storytelling - which are all so difficult in their own right, but you also fixed an incredibly advanced piece of vintage tech which was built before specs and details are archived online.
YES well put. I agree
not really. this was in the era where there were schematics came with EVERYTHING.
this video is so awesome! I really appreciate the effort you put into making this video a true work of art in itself. The aesthetics, the camera movements and angles and the sound design. very enjoyable to watch.
Pas beaucoup de youtubeur qui mettent la barre aussi haute !
Avec de prime la passion que j'ai pu ressentir tout au long de la vidéo.
Un grand bravo pour avoir réussi à debugguer et remettre en état de marche cette caméra. Peu de gens ont les compétences pour.
C'était vraiment intéressant et divertissant à regarder. Mille merci du montage, travail effectué, l'investissement personnel jusqu'à l'émotion que tu as réussi à transmettre ! Juste WOW et génial !
Oh wow. Only a single video every six months, but there's always a lot of anticipation for what you'll show next!
10 😳
Truly quality over quantity
The production quality is off the charts. I can't describe how much joy these videos bring me.
So much work goes into your videos! It doesn’t go unnoticed. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Everything about this is so amazing! Thank you for the incredibly hard work! I was especially impressed by the incredible sound design. I feel like I just got off of an amusement ride, it was such an epic journey!
This was nothing but insane 🤯
I wonder, how you're able to have enough time to do things like repairing the camera *and* making an insane Video about it.
btw I find that it shows one time more how important sound is for a good film. 👌🏼
Thanks! 1 full month just to figure out how to repair / make the camera work + 1.5 month for filming + editing
@@zebrazone Don't tell me that you needed that small time beside your "normal" life with job, friends, ...?!
@@zebrazone damn. Keep making premium content like this. Better than Netflix
Man! What a video!! Wow! Awesome! Just the intro is already so great! And the editing, the storytelling, the musics and sound design.. everything was amazing! So much effort for just a TH-cam video. Well done and congratulations for all the crew involved in this.
more than a decade of graphic design and video editing experience. and i got goosebumps in some parts of this epic video. from sound effect to music. editing . shooting everything is just epic. u guys are legends👌👌
Cannot believe this is not part of some high quality national tv production. It is INCREDIBLE well made!
i was thinking the same... even better than some big commercial productions i've seen.
Perhaps he should have actually used some damn lights...
Je découvre ta chaine, wow vidéo bluffante !!! Les plan, le son, les musiques, le montage, et la caméra c'est hyper intéressant de voir ce que ça donne comparé à de la tech d'aujourd'hui. L'évolution est dingue quand on y pense
Another absolutely fantastic Zebra Zone production - love it!
Franchement, je suis sur le cul. Ça fait très longtemps que j'avais pas vu une vidéo de ce genre aussi bien montée, et surtout avec un sound design aussi bon !
Sincèrement, BRAVO ! J'espère que vous irez loin.
Je suis totalement d'accord avec toi. C'est du travail de pro !
Wow! What a high quality video about cameras from the old days! I really loved the comparison between then and now. Yet, I would have loved to see some more details about the interior. Hope to see some more content like this.
I really appreciate the amount of work you put into these videos. The quality is nothing short of amazing, and it was WELL worth the long wait. Keep doing what you're doing, and I'll be here to watch!
Wow... That's so cinematic! Super level of review, editing, storytelling ofc. Really enjoyed that. I will check out the repair process as well, thanks for that video too! Inspires me to learm more about editing and shooting. Awesome.
Absolutly love your work man! It was a great journey that I felt seeing this!
This is awesome. Congrats on getting better and better over time. Hope it pays off soon enough so you and your team can keep producing for ever! Great video, I really loved it. Thank you all
This video has left me utterly impressed by the insane level of production quality. I learned quite a bit and really loved the fact you were able to get it all working. Subbing for more content!
I love this video. In fact, this is the first time I watch a video from your channel. Your video is super well done …
Zebra Zone, your videos are simply the best! I've been a subscriber from the very start, and I'm awe struck every time you upload something! keep it going 👏🏾👏🏾
The way you captured those scenes and the editing were truly amazing!
What an epic show this was. First time on this channel. This was an absolute joy to watch.
The Universe favors those who nourish patience. One year in the making, but a wonderful video. Thanks for all the hard work!
This is legendary. Picking a vintage thing which is broken & making it work again is something beyond my imagination. You're amazing my friend. I'm fascinated after watching this video.Had a cocktail of emotions while watching this. Huge fan
Man this was amazing! Maximum respect for you editing skills, the picture quality and the time/work you put in graphics and effects! You are inspiring! Keep it up!
Not only is this God-tier production that makes even MKBHD look a little low rent (!) but it’s brilliant story telling too. I’m off to watch the full repair section now, can only imagine how frustrating that process was… 😅
You are right. If you want tech reviews but in a cinematic way, search for “iphonedo” youtube channel. Thank me later. 😅
MKBHD has a simple but tasteful style with his videos but there's tons of work behind the scenes you don't notice. The intros they do are more often than not more complex than you might think.
I'm not trying to dunk on this video but it felt a bit dramatic in style which is cool and it has its place but it's not always the best option.
Love the tribute! I think that, as far as (electrical) engineering goes, doesn't matter in which field, professional equipment is always the most interesting. I have a background in broadcasting and I know how gear like this was (and still is, mostly) built as workhorses. Very expensive, though. But that's for a reason!
THIS VIDEO IT'S EPIC! congratulations for the amazing work!
Cette vidéo (à l'image de toutes celles sur votre chaine) est d'une qualité de production, de montage, de travail sur l'ambiance musicale/SFX incroyables, c'est plein de détails et de passion ! Un immense bravo pour le taff réalisé, et merci de nous faire découvrir les entrailles (si rarement vues) d'une bête de ce genre !
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French accent 😁
Encore une fois totalement d’accord.
Comme on dirait par ici: je suis complètement « flabbergasté »!!!
WAAAA bug man icii, tes vidéo nous manque c'était vraiment incroyable tes vidéo lspdfr
Wow. And thank you. This is obviously extremely impressive both topic-wise and just videography-wise. And restoring old, cool tech can feel exactly how you make it feel here. This was really unexpected and very nice! And congratulations of course for bringing the camera back to life!
Love the quality content. This was truly epic.
Incredible equally mind melting were the closing shots. just.. WOW
An immaculate blast to the blast to the past with crisp shots and slick editing. Amazing work as always ZZ!
And only candles for illumination apparently. What a stupid lighting choice.
I appreciate your dedication. I wanted to watch without skipping anything, the way it was edited was excellent. 😍
This is the most cinematic teardown video I've seen on TH-cam.
It is fire🔥
Bravo. What an incredible insight on this magnificent hardware
Such a well made and interesting video! And the intro was so cool and well edited that I had to rewatch it several times :D
The production quality…..is…..INSANE. I subscribed almost immediately after finding your channel some time ago. I can only imagine the potential for your channel if you were to make somewhat regular videos…maybe once a month like Mark Rober. This is like Jerryrigeverthing on an entirely new level. Please keep going with this channel, even if not high cost vids like this. They are incredible.
hahahah once a month. Do you realize how much time it costs to make a video of this quality?
oh my goodness it was incredible. Crazy work, look and sound. I need to watch it again. Now!
Wow, that was epic. Your video is on another level than what I'm used to watching on this subject. Thanks for that! You got a new subscriber.
Oh! it happened zebra zone uploaded!!
Damn I just felt like I was inside a Movie and time travelled the editing the music been used those sound effects doing their job in the background giving the vibes and those lighting this is a perfect video I was not getting a chance to skip some parts of video it was so engaging
That was an amazing video. You're tenacity is just off the scale. Well done. Greetings from Arizona.
I used to operate that camera, but NOT from the camera position, but from the ccu control point. These cameras often needed two people to work, one to point the camera in the right direction and the other to control exactly HOW the camera "see's" the image. Since they typically used 3 different CCD, one each for red, green, blue. The operator at the CCU control point made sure each of the colors were lain on top of each other for the sharpness of the image. You can also control the individual intensity of each color for color mixing and hues. Some effects also started in the camera. It is fascinating to see cameras get smaller as new technology gets invented and becomes available.
How does the video quality of this camera compare to that of the day? It looks out of calibration, maybe from aging components or something.
Awesome video! I've always wondered what was going on inside those bulky cameras. Where I work, we use many large scale video projectors (some with price tags of around $900,000 each). Most of these have very custom lenses that run from $45,000 to $90,000 and are the only ones exactly like them in the world.
my god? the level of production quality you have in these videos is mind blowing. I almost cried. Just awesome man. I think someone should sponser you on your amazing content!
Never ever in TH-cam have seen such a remarkable content like this and the moon just fascinating congratulations and thank you for this beautiful trip .
When I saw you were about to saw the lens to open it I was about to yell "NOOOO!!". Thank you for giving such a historic piece a second chance!
Zebra Zone as always is top-tier. This is amazing. Holy cow. The cinematography, the score, the story, and the fact that you got it working!
This is probably the best video I have seen with regards to editing lighting scenes etc as well as the core content incredible you should have millions of subs! Thanks so much I enjoyed it a lot
One of the video i ever watched for ages. Keep up your amazing content
I am so happy you made it work. I would really like to see how the lens looks on modern cameras
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WOW, YOU ARE WHAT WE NEED ! PLEASE KEEP MAKING AWSOME CONTENT DUDE! !!!! ! LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!
What could I say great video incredible editing and shooting great lighting. It was a journey not just another TH-cam video. Subscribed
Excelente! É muito gratificante ver um equipamento que um dia foi o topo de linha ser revivido dessa forma! Parabéns!
o cara é bom
Eu gostei muito das imagens da câmera antiga, ela é bem nostálgica
@@andrerabello5450 realmente, tem a cara dos anos 90
Return of the King
This video is impossibly amazing in every aspect. I´m speachless.
Sound, video and editing of this video is SOOOOO AMAZING. I really feel the love in the cutting, editing, filming and making of this Video. Like a epic expensive movie
Those small wires are called bodge-wires. When you have an error in your PCB it is often times cheaper to fix it by cutting traces and adding wires by hand instead of re-doing the design, ordering new PCBs, and possibly throwing out already assembled boards if you are only making a few hundred or thousands of that board
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This was insane. Keep going mate! Subscribed
Wow what a video, the content and production quality are unbelievable; hats off
I'd absolutely love to see you try this crazy lens on a modern camera body, somehow! I bet that part still holds up today.
He is back 😀
Very nicely made video, well done. I worked with one of these Thomson cameras with Irish National Television (RTE), many years ago, before we changed over to the superb Sony 600 CCD camera. We made many thousands of programmes with the old Thomson, which is now sadly obsolete. Happy Days!
Amazing work! Old cameras are impressive! Old but gold!
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1000 EUROS?? Uhh I’ve taken these apart and scrapped them…😮 Also turned down 3 for free. Bought the lenses for $80 each. Awesome video though. 😊 Years ago I had an Ikegami SC500 with J20x8.5IE mounted on a pedestal that I kept in the living room for a while (I used it as a sortof security camera haha and for timelapses). I traded an SGI Octane computer for that camera and lens (and the pedestal). 😀
This is the best youtube video production i have ever seen congrats my friend !!!
Wow... What a great time to be alive! I'm now able to see what's inside of these cameras. Thanks for showing us. And you got a new subscriber in your channel.
As an electrical engineer (from the 1980s) I do highly appreciate your curiosity. And incredible production quality!
Its mindboggling how this 40kg camera from 32 years ago, is outclassed by a device that fits in your pocket and weighs less than 200 grams and probably has a thousand times more processing power.
Your production quality is always excellent!!
Hi Thibaut.
Your videos are EPIC! Well produced, engaging and delightful.
I cannot express enough how captivating is to watch them.
You are an artist. Definitely.
Congratulations and thank you for this brilliant piece of art.
Cheers.
You deserve so much more credit for this I just loved every second watching this series!
Guy... awesome video... I have one question: What would be the quality of an image when this old lens is mounted to a new camera?? Basically, I want someone to make it clear whether a 4K lens makes a difference in image quality as compared to an HD lens. I think the qualilty (HD/4K) should not matter. What should matter is the image sensor quality of the camera... please @ZebraZone make a video on this.
I actually filmed with the old lens and the 2022 camera ! It was beautiful. But I thought it was too much of a niche topic and forgot to go deeper into that … sorry :( maybe next time !
@@zebrazone Please do a short sequel demonstrating the lens’ image quality on a modern sensor! 😊
I remember operating once a early HD cam with a SD lens (18 x 7.3), it was still "ok" in the center but turned blur on edges when wide open. Never had the same situation with 4kcam/HD lens so I can only guess it would be same.
But the bandwidth of the lens has to be limited by the bandwidth of the sensor. The factor is by 2 times if I remember correctly.
The "sharpness" is made electronically later in the signal chain by adding a square wave signal on pixel transition function (detail).
So if you want to see the "real" image out of the lens you have to put the "detail" treatment down to zero and you will see that those lens deliver in fact a kind of blur image.
beautifully edited!!! awesome work
The craftsmanship of this video is extremely well made. I am super purprized to see this in a youtube video. Keep up!!
Dude! You have returned :) I haven't even watched yet - I'm just hyped that you haven't abandoned your channel. Glad you are well :)
edit - Holy heck! That was a labour of love! I can't believe you actually got that to work! What an incredible piece of engineering... Thank you so much for taking me on this journey. Remarkable stuff. I hope some of those older engineers get to see your video - I am sure they will love it.
I'm literally speechless about this... The amount of effort and dedication to produce such an incredible video is astounding. Just wow.
Amazing project and video, excellent stuff - thank you for making this and sharing with the world!
Fantastic! Enthralled to the end. Only a telly camera? Good Lord those circuit boards! Everything so tightly packed. The CNC milling and all power and signal down a triax cable via FM, every day I learn something new!
The production quality of this video is amazing, it's just a shame you left that many details out of the video tho
Wow. Wonderful work dude. Thank you
This video was so well done, the music, the scenes everything was excellent
Where are you ?
Who are you?
@@jarifazmain5170 Why are you 😁 ?
@@SuperJBXx idk
@@jarifazmain5170 ok
this sucks i just want to see whats inside the camera and i got epilepsy attack watching the intro
edit: watched the video and still don't know what's inside a 200,000 TV Camera, instead of cutting it open he fixed it.