RCA 1939 Field Pickup Iconoscope
Television Camera
The design used a set of portable units, each the size of a
suitcase; CCU with waveform and picture
monitor, PSU, Sync. generator. A camera Auxiliary contained most of
the camera electronics, it used two 8 foot lengths of cable to connect
to the camera.
The cameraman had only the most rudimentary gun sight style viewfinder on the side of the camera. There was no control for focusing! This was done remotely by observing the picture on the display tube in the camera control unit, (CCU) the operator used a “Selsyn” generator-motor control system to move the lens in the camera. (see last picture).