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Camera inputs.
At NAB I fell for an electric remote control helicopter that had a wireless camera on it. The camera isn’t the greatest quality but the shots that I can get will perhaps offset the quality.
The receiver has a composite out RCA connector and I know the camera can record in S-Video but can it also record in Composite signal?
My hopes are to use the HVX-200 to record the signal on location to tape. I have flown remote control helicopters in the past so I am not new to that but adding a camera to it I am.
Thanks,
-Lars
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Sounds like the camera has seperate chroma and luma circiuts (4 wires)behind the chip so it records and processes S-video but it likely mixes them to composite (2 wires) at the transmitter. I’m not too up on video transmitters and recievers but composite doesn’t have to look bad because it’s composite. The trick here is to bump down to composite at the last minute just before transmitting I guess. This is how broadcast video was in the 70’s, 3
chiptube cameras recording onto 1″ tape in 500 line composite and it looked good (till jvc invented the video cassette and sony produced beta sp component). Now we have component coming through the walls of our houses and the 3 primaries never do get mixed. Just as a 3 chip camera can record the world infront of it in the 3 primaries/secondaries (there is some skullduggerery behind video colour prossessing), modern video processing equipment can take a good clean composite signal and break it into decent component.
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