A new toy from a bygone era of analog video...

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I have this late 1970s, black-and-white, tube-based analog video camera on the way from an eBay seller.
$10, including another camera, a cool Yashica Super-8 movie film camera.

I have an even older similar model already (RCA BW001)?, and look forward to having a "semi-matched pair" to do some two-camera setups, just for the fun of it.

They have C-Mount lenses, so lens options are massive, especially with adapters.
All of my Nikon "F-mount" SLR lenses will fit, with an adapter I already have, for example.

I might eventually even shoot a YouTube video or two with these, subject unknown.
Maybe once I digitize all of the family's old 8mm home movies, I'll make a narrated YouTube video titled "What undiagnosed autism looked like in the 1970s".
Narration will be needed, because my Dad didn't spring for the sound version of Super-8 back then, so all of our home movies are "Silent Films".

Darron

You might like this funny lady and her Utube channel. Fran and her lab. She dusts off and uses old technology.