Soviet Space Cameras

I did a post on the NASA camera that went to the moon so I thought it appropriate to do one on Soviet Space Cameras! here is an excellent web page

Another Tyco TVC 8000 Video Cam

So this week at a junk market I came across another Tyco Video Camera for £2. Hopefully Im going to use them both for a few experiments including some circuit modifications and possibly some stereo imaging. When the tests are done ill post a tutorial.

Elvira Hufschmid

Hi here is a cool piece from 2004 described on the artists website here

"interactive video sculpture 2004
moving closed-circuit installation
aluminium-construction, 14 monitors,
14 surveillance cameras,
size 7`1" x 11`5"

A rocking construction carries a corpus of 14 monitors to which 14 small colour cameras are attached. Each camera is recording a different section of the installation space and transferring the images directly to one of the monitors on the rocker. The rocking motion of the sculpture composed of monitors and cameras generates moving pictures from differing perspectives that represent the room and its content as a mobile three-dimensional body."

PXL THIS!

The most notable Pixelvision/Toy camera film festival festival PXL THIS that has been running for an astonishing length of time the next festival will be its 20th and the entry deadline is Oct 22!

Jonathan Schipper Invisible sphere

Very impressive video sphere! from Jonathan Schipper here's what he says on his website.
"The sphere contains 215 monitors and 215 cameras. Each camera is opposite to the monitor it feeds. The sphere constantly recreates its surroundings on its monitors from every conceivable angle at all times. The sphere is reflection of media’s attempt to remain revealing as it grows in power and becomes increasingly omni present."

Tiny Portable USB Video Camera

heres a cool gadget originally intended to be used for RC aircraft flight recordings. Its a tiny video camera that uses micro SD cards as its storage medium up to 8GB. I thought this would be a cool camera to use for allot of other projects where size is important and its only $35! get one at Hobbyworks.com

Washingline

here is a video made using a toy video camera (tyco tvc 8000) that was running low on batteries creating vertical bars on the ccd. I then ran it through feed back and effects. It was pointed at my washing-line in afternoon daylight conditions

MOON CAMERA

The black and white camera used by Apollo 11 astronauts ! more info via thedvshow

Broken Video Camera

Broken is sometimes more interesting than working as in this video from halftheory on youtube

Video Feedback Spirals

Here is a very nice piece of video feed back from dagfooyo on flickr

and heres the description "Analog feedback using two cameras a video mixer, and two projectors."

Some Quick Video Messing Around

I wanted to make something on my day off so here are some bits of my video stuff cut together over me messing with some audio stuff. Not very good or exiting yet but I wanted to start building up martial to edit down in to something worthwhile. Its mostly just testing equipment and ideas.

it also features the tyco camera from the earlier post!

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 

Vidicon Tube Sun Burn In

Older TV/video cameras used tubes to convert light in to an electrical signal instead of the now ubiquitous CCD, these tubes were quite limited and had many operational problems but they still have a cult following today due to there unique characteristics. The feedback produced for the original Doctor Who series was done by pointing a camera with a video tube at its own monitor. Similar effects can be produced with other technologies such as CCD but they are not as fluid and have a different esthetic. Another problem with Vidicon camera tubes is that very bright sources can damage their surface resulting in areas where the tube "goes blind"

I think that this is actually kind of cool almost like drawing with light as seen in David Hall's 1973 Vidicon Inscriptions here

here is a video from videolabguy on youtube demonstrating this problem his other videos and website are an amazing collection of useful info on vintage video gear 

Circuit Bent Web-cam Audio Visualizer

via giulioescalona on youtube