Museum of the Broadcast Television Camera

Pye Mk2 Pes Photicon television Camera

Pye Mk2 PES Photicon television camera side view
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The BBC used the Mk2 in studio P at Lime Grove together with a Photicon Telecine. HDF (High Definition Films Ltd., of Highbury Studios) used the Mk2 with an 800 line rate.

It used a PES Photicon (Pesticon), a miniature Image Iconoscope tube (Photicon) with extra electrodes and Pea bulb illumination ( early light bias??).

 

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