From the New Zealand TV Weekly. Feb 6th, 1967
New TV Camera Excels in Low Light Conditions
A new television camera incorporating the "Plumbicon" tube, has recently been demonstrated at night trotting meetings in New Zealand and has greatly impressed trotting people with its capabilities. It is now being viewed with considerable interest also by the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation.
The new camera showed in a major trial at a night trotting meeting at Addington that it can perform very well in low light conditions. Its picture was almost as if it had been taken during the day. As a conscequence of its use there, together with a video tape recorder which records the images on to tape, playbacks led to the fining of one driver and the disqualification of a horse and the exoneration of two other drivers involved in a collision.
Its sensitivity makes this tube, for monochrome television purposes, the equal of the much more expensive image orthicon which has been the traditional camera tube for television studio use,
said Mr L. Steeneken, of the Service Division of Philips Electrical Industries of New Zealand. Limited. For colour television it is several times more sensitive, and is capable of producing a really superior colour rendition.
The colour camera has three "Plumbicon" tubes.
The new tube type is simply constructed, small in size and easy to operate. Furthermore, it costs only about a quarter as much to run as the image orthicon tube.
This television camera with "Plumbicon" tube, pictured in the Service Division workshop of Philips Electrical Industries of New Zealand Ltd. at Wellington; is the only one of its kind in New Zealand and is being used for demonstration purposes. Demonstrating the camera is Mr L. Steeneken of the company's Service Division.
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