Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Toy Cameras

So I now have few new toys, a 1980s Fisher Price Pixelvision PXL-2000 camera that records video on standard audio cassettes! and a Tyco TVC-8000 another small black and white camera from slightly later, both use a CCD, both are small and grey 


now the PXL- has a huge floowing and many online groups and film festivals dedicated to its users so I wont bother including all the links here (they are easy to find) but the Tyco TVC-8000 is less well known and used (which is why  it only cost me £1) here is an excellent website about its capabilities 
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5 comments:

  1. Robert Brown9 September 2010 at 03:54

    I've been trying to acquire one of the old Videocams... I can't believe you found it for a mere quid! Did you luck out on eBay?

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  2. Chris10 September 2010 at 12:11

    yes just got another one for £2 on a junk stall which I'm going to use as a test bed for some power starve and other mods detailed in the link above

    ill post a build report about it when its done

    good luck in your search

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  3. Khristopher Blight4 June 2011 at 23:01

    Have you had any success with modding the TVC-8000? I picked up 2 recently. Been searching for mod results before I open one up. Love your blog BTW.

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  4. Chris28 June 2011 at 01:23

    not yet just using them as intended I think simple colour cams have more options but you might want to add some toggles for the functions from the schematic linked in the above post

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  5. mk is Watoo7 June 2016 at 14:40

    For whomever might be interested...
    The website linked above is down, but it has been stored there:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20140922123718/http://www.reality.demon.co.uk/tyco.htm

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