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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The camera itself has gotten smaller. There’s more to a TV camera than just the camera body itself. There’s lenses, mountings, side tools, and other things that make up the whole of a television studio camera. For instance, many have a box on the front that sticks out further at the top and goes down at an angle. That is a teleprompter, which consists of a horizontal monitor and an angled glass which acts as a two-way mirror, allowing the camera to see through while the talent reads their script reflected from the monitor.
TLDR: Television cameras are a system that includes the camera body, and the whole thing is still big.
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