Video camera

The first, characteristic of much early broadcasting, is live television, where the camera feeds real time images directly to a screen for immediate observation.

In the second mode the images are recorded to a storage device for archiving or further processing; for many years, videotape was the primary format used for this purpose, but was gradually supplanted by optical disc, hard disk, and then flash memory.

All-electronic designs based on the video camera tube, such as Vladimir Zworykin's Iconoscope and Philo Farnsworth's image dissector, supplanted the Nipkow system by the 1930s.

[1] The first semiconductor image sensor was the charge-coupled device, invented at Bell Labs in 1969,[3] based on MOS capacitor technology.

[11] The first somewhat successful attempt to directly record video was in 1927 with John Logie Baird’s disc based Phonovision.

Some like Panavision PV and Arri PL are designed for movie cameras while others like Canon EF and Sony E come from still photography.