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A camera (with teleprompter unit) mounted on a pedestal A camera pedestal is an item upon which television cameras are mounted, typically seen in television studios . Unlike tripods , pedestals give camera operators the ability to move the camera in any direction (left, right, forward, back, up, down).
Pedestal crater; Pedestal desk; Pedestal table, a table with a single central leg; Pedestal toilet for sitting, as opposed to squat toilet for squatting; Camera pedestal, a column with a steerable base used to mount a television camera; Telecommunications pedestal, a ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
Aeroscope (1910) Geoffrey Malins with aeroscope camera during World War I Aeroscope was a type of compressed air camera for making films, constructed by Polish inventor Kazimierz Prószyński in 1909 (French patent from 10 April 1909) and built in England since 1911, [1] at first by Newman & Sinclair, [2] and from 1912 by Cherry Kearton Limited.
This process included a lengthy alignment process in which the vision engineer would work with the camera operator, to adjust the settings on both the actual camera and the CCU in tandem. [1] During production, it was the vision engineers' job to operate the CCUs and control both the exposure and the colour balance .
Combo-cameras combine full-feature still cameras and camcorders in a single unit. The Sanyo Xacti HD1 was the first such unit, combining the features of a 5.1 megapixel still camera with a 720p video recorder with improved handling and utility. Canon and Sony have introduced camcorders with still-photo performance approaching that of a digicam ...
Ikegami high definition video camera of NHK Kobe. Ikegami introduced the first portable 4 1/2-inch Image Orthicon tube hand-held TV camera. [1] The camera made its debut in the United States in February 1962, when CBS used it to document the launching of NASA's Friendship 7, its first crewed space mission to orbit the Earth. [1]
This glossary of geography terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in geography and related fields, including Earth science, oceanography, cartography, and human geography, as well as those describing spatial dimension, topographical features, natural resources, and the collection, analysis, and visualization of geographic ...
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]