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Type 2014K Image Orthicon camera

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The Pye Orthicon is an example of the type of television cameras used from the 1950s in Australia for both studio and outside broadcast work. Such cameras did not have have the capacity to record while out on location and so outside crews would transmit vision and sound back to studios for recording or live broadcast.

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