[Tech1] Can I take you back to the summer of 1986...? (photo ident question)

[Graeme Wall]

Could explain why the location guys never complained :-)  Never had any complaints from production either though.
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Graeme Wall


> On 3 Jan 2019, at 16:01, Roger E Long <relong at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> Azimuth had to be spot on for the studio transfer machine, this rarely was achieved
> Dolby C was merely two Dolby B chips back to back, not Dolby SR as it should have been.
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>> On 3 Jan 2019, at 10:30, Graeme Wall <graeme.wall at icloud.com> wrote:
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>>> On 3 Jan 2019, at 10:21, Roger E Long via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> We hated the BVU50/110 in Film Unit
>>> We likened video to 2 sacks of coal tied together by a rope!
>>> However the studio boys were glad to get out and about and see daylight
>>> Beta SP looked better until we discovered Dolby C miss tracking ruined our audio
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>> Interesting, don’t recall having that problem with ours. I used BVP300s and 400s right up to, and a bit after, the launch of Digi-beta and never had a recordist complain.
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>> Graeme Wall
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