A professional video camera is a high-end device for creating electronic moving images. Originally developed for use in television studios or with outside broadcast trucks, they are now also used for
Modern digital television camera with a DIGI SUPER 86II xs lens from Canon
Sony HDC-1550 camera with Fujinon lens
This 1954 RCA TK-41C, shown here mounted on a dolly, weighed 310 lbs.
Betacam is a family of professional half-inch tape video formats and videocassette products, developed by Sony from 1982. In colloquial use, Betacam singly is often used to refer to a Betacam camcorde
A black Betacam SP videocassette (L size) from Sony; a blue Digital Betacam videocassette from Maxell
Cassetta Betacam Mbc FN 120612 150103 s
A Betacam SP format camcorder (Sony UVW-100B) in the newsroom of KTAB-TV/KRBC-TV, 2009
An early Betacam cassette (left) next to a Betamax cassette (right)