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Camera

Studios have many components and positions that are required to work in harmony to produce a show.  You can make the argument that the cameras are the most important piece of equipment because with out the cameras there would be no device to record the proceedings. The three major components of cameras are the imaging device, lens, and the view finder.  The imaging device converts light into electricity by its sensors converting the optical image into electrical impulses.  Picture elements also known as the compound "pixels" creates millions of image sensing elements that transform color and brightness into a specific electric charge that becomes the video signal.  The two main types of lenses are zoom and prime. Prime lenses are little bit sharper but do not have the ability to zoom in and out. The view finder displays what the camera is capturing in live real time. Two types of video are analog and digital.  Analog provides a continuous stream of information like a ramp.  Digital signal processing is broken into determined digitized steps that end up splitting the analog information into sections.  RGB red green and blue are the primary colors in which all other colors are mixed from on TV. 

In most productions more then one camera is used.  The director can switch back and forth from camera to camera based on the desired shot and dialogue. In a two camera system like we have at the studio at shepherd the left camera shots the actions on the right and the right camera shoots the action on the left.  The director can be in communication with the camera person to work on framing the next shot they want to switch to while the the camera is capturing the live action.  When the director switches to the camera they have been framing and setting up the director can starting framing the next shot with the camera that just had the shot and that process can be repeated throughout the whole show.