Why haven’t television cameras gotten any smaller?

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I was at an event the other day and the media was there. I noticed that the cameras they were using to record and broadcast the event were just as large and bulky as I remember them being when I was a kid in the 80s. Pretty much everything else technology-wise has become more miniaturized in the past 40 years, but apparently not the TV cameras. Why is that?

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Depend on witch camera’s your talking about. The portable camera’s for news teams etc absolutely got a lot smaller. The big stationary camera’s not that much. A lot of the size comes from ergonomics, eg you want a decent size focus ring, and a bgi viewfinder for the cameramen, and since its on a wheeled standard, there’s not much benefit in making it smaller anyway

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