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Kodak in the video market puts photography and recording in the hands of amateurs

《Eastman Kodak》 has stepped into the video market where it will market recording devices - 8 mm camcorders, with special tapes for home entertainment. This will be the manufacture of these products in Japan according to Kodak specifications. TDK is working on securing the tapes, while Matsushita is working on producing the devices, which will be announced as "Koda Vision" 2000 series.
Those who previously used to work with normal 8 mm or Super 8 cinema cameras will now be able to practice their home hobbies with a camera - at the time of the tyranny of cameras and video recorders.
- A new recorder (Cam corder) that puts the electronic cinema at their fingertips, with the same size (8 mm). Kodak, which promises this, also promises many other achievements later in the field of video

The famous Eastman Kodak company enters into the world of photography, from a wide door and within requirements
Amateurs to a greater degree and this achievement Kodak considers the beginning of a new level of home video recording.

It includes a camera and a recorder as one easy-to-carry piece, hence the advantage of this device in relation to the existing camera and recorder that have to be connected to each other when working, which requires more complications such as focusing the camera on the shoulder and connecting it with a wire to a recording unit, usually held at waist level.
This equipment weighs about 4 kilograms, while the new camera integrated with the recording device, which is carried as one piece, does not weigh more than two and a half kilograms.

As for the Kodak 8 mm video cassette, it is also miniature, and it can be said that it is slightly larger than the well-known audio recording cassette .. This is with reference to that, with this miniature device, you will get everything
We want it from ease of capture to sharpness to good color gradation.

Two models from Kodak

Kodak's entry into the home electronics market will come within the 2000 series of Kodavision, namely:
(Koda vision series 2000)
According to two models:
2200 and 2400. The two models share a number of advantages, such as the electronic viewfinder - black and white -

The f/1.2 and 1/6 zoom lens is designed for photography in available light, with a review feature that gives the photographer with a button a look at at least four seconds of recorded video. This is in addition to the automatic iris to adjust the exposure indoors and outdoors. In addition to multiple electronic advantages.

Model 2400 offers special features, including the improved suspension of the tire. With single-frame advance power, auto focus and button dimming with electronic capability to record the date of each frame at the right angle and negative-positive conversion for producing special effects and copying still negatives onto slides.

brooder

Of the optional contents of the two models. There is a special cradle for (Koda vision) 2000 series devices. This cradle is multi-use, as it can simultaneously recharge two batteries for the camcorder with 60-minute power, with a self-stop at the end of the task. Wired - This is when we want to record extended events indoors.
In addition, the incubator works as a separate electronic surface, with a regular TV or recorder

A half-inch video cassette. This incubator can also convert the video signals captured by the recorded camera, CodaVision, into RF signals to display images and sounds on any television set, color or white. Converted, CodaVision » The timer - the tuner in the incubator can work in black and white. In addition to all that, with Install as an 8mm VCR.
It records television programs when the viewer is following another program, or while he is outside the house. This timer has a capacity of 100 channels, and it has 12 channel locations that the user can set up in advance, even two weeks in advance, to work on recording two different programs. As an alternative, the cradle can be installed in any recording device. Half-inch video This is what allows owners of this type of video to use a portable "Koda Vision" camera to automatically record the picture and sound, and they can then copy 8 mm video cassettes onto half-inch cassettes, or vice versa, to add to their library. This has contributed, Kodak. in the design An 8 mm video cassette device, with a special emphasis on the host, and Kodak's knowledge of amateur photography is reflected in its new production and its contents. Hence, we can say that this product will be guaranteed to be used by amateurs.

Amateur opportunities

Among the features that the 2000 series carries more and more within the reach of amateurs is the electronic viewfinder. It is a small TV screen, the picture comes across in black and white. It allows amateurs to watch what they record accurately, and they can, apart from what we mentioned, repeat the scenes of the last four seconds by pressing a button, and by means of another button, they send a shadow effect on the image, and with the 2400 model, and with the help of an optional adapter device, they can record photographs and slides. Thus, everyone who can surround an image within the viewfinder can, on the other hand, record a good image and sound under any daylights, and many indoor lighting conditions, and there is a signal in the camera confirming that the light is sufficient, or that additional lighting is needed. Note that the need rarely requires additional lighting in various circumstances. If the matter is in basketball matches or any other school activities, the lights of the stands and stadiums by themselves are sufficient for filming in cameras, Koda Vision, 2000 series from Kodak.

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The possibility of resorting to, editing the scenes later will be available by connecting an embracer - CodaVision. With any video recording device, this means that it is also possible to perform mixing and parallelization of electronic scenes as well, and thus it will be easy to store all electronic scenes of a child’s birthday celebrations on his own video cassette so that it becomes easy later. Copying selected images and sounds from the tape, for those of the relatives who wish to keep some scenes, without the need for cutting or joining.

Kodak believes that its entry into the video market with miniature cameras and recorders will contribute to the spread of these devices within homes, and it will become common to see amateurs spreading in school playgrounds and private parties, carrying these small cameras to cover the activities with moving pictures, as they used to take still pictures of them.

This, as Kodak says, will not stand in the way of static photography, which will be reserved for amateurs and professionals.

entertainment tapes

Finally, on the level of entertainment tapes, Kodak will work to download more than fifty forms of
Video Cassette and Tape Format for Home Entertainment and Craft Applications - Kodak VCRs for the home entertainment market will be sold in half-inch widths and in various common lengths with normal and adult gradation and of course in both VHS (Betaia) formats. These cassettes will be available in establishments that sell Kodak products within the photographic stores. This is in addition to stores that sell televisions and videos - and other stores that distribute video tapes.
Kodak will release these tapes to the market under the name Beta L-750 (120-VHS T).