camera tube

American  

noun

Television.

1. a cathode-ray tube that converts an optical image projected on its light-sensitive receptor surface into an electrical signal by a scanning process: used in analog television cameras.

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camera tube British  

noun

1. the part of a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal See also image orthicon vidicon Plumbicon iconoscope

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camera tube

Liebman's actors, now TVeterans, have survived the harsh lights of early TV and, thanks to the new orthicon camera tube, which makes a clearer picture possible with less light, use little make-up and fewer aspirins.

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They were replaced by the modern television camera tube, which has no moving parts except a beam of quickly obedient electrons.

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A videcon tube, much like a standard TV camera tube, "sees" the picture or other photographable object.

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As it happens, Zworykin had made a patent application in 1923, and by 1933 had developed a camera tube he called an Iconoscope.

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It has a camera tube that views a scene, such as a dimly lighted room, and translates it into a stream of electronic signals.

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