When was the camcorder made

When we returned home I set about learning all that I could about this new technology. There was no internet, of course, so the only way was to get hold of trade magazines from the major manufacturers — Sony, Panasonic, JVC etc etc — all big name Japanese companies. It all made very interesting reading!

It was almost like doing a crash course in a curriculum in the cutting edge of this technology, for which university or college courses had not yet been established. We purchased two Panasonic video cameras and two portable video recorders which recorded in a format called U-Matic, which was the broadcast standard format used by the BBC and ITV.

Domestic video camera recording at this time involved using a very large and cumbersome video camera which was connected by a lead to a separate portable video recorder. URL Name. Article Detail Article. Here are important steps along the way: Super 8: When Kodak released this 8mm camera in , it used a sealed cartridge that made shooting home movies easy. Need quality footage for your production? Shutterstock has millions. Explore our footage plans today. Polaroid's Polavision camera was an early pre-digital attempt to cut the lag — but it never caught on.

Kodak's Super 8 movie format packaged film in a cartridge, thus removing all the problems amateurs had with threading the film in the camera. It created a mini-boom in home movies in the s. The original camcorders arrived in TV studios in the late s.

The first camcorder used vacuum tubes which would get incredibly hot over a period of time. As innovation accelerated, the tubes became smaller and smaller, which allowed the cameras in turn to get smaller. Eventually, the tubes in camcorders were substituted with solid-state components and the TV camcorders became highly portable. Due to this, we have the ability to capture news as it happens and events which would have otherwise gone unseen.

The original camcorders had to be attached to tape machines to enable the capture of footage. Despite the fact that this constrained exactly how far the cameras could go, it created enthusiasm among the home market.