When was the first color video camera invented?

Question

the date when color video invented

Answer 1

In 1990, Kodak developed the Photo CD system and proposed "the first worldwide standard for defining color in the digital environment of computers and computer peripherals." In 1991, Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS), aimed at photojournalists. It was a Nikon F-3 camera equipped by Kodak with a 1.3 megapixel sensor.

Answer 2

whoa you guys are way off. color video cameras go way back. no one said we are talking digital.

first of all, technically there never has been, and probably never will be a true "color" camera. Even the eye does not see in color, but rather is sensitive to 3 frequency bands, and the brain has to combine the sensors to determine color. A color camera is really just 3 monochrome (as in B/W) cameras combined in one frame. The color is separated using filters so one pickup is green, another red and finally blue. (there are other schemes but you get the idea).  Even a single chip CCD uses on-chip stripe filters to get the color separation.

So the first color camera came quickly after the first monochrome camera was put to use.  RCA was the primary manufacture in the USA and was demonstrating color television in 1949. The camera end was the easy part, getting transmission and receiver standards set was the real problem. The first over-air broadcast were by CBS using field sequential, that is the first frame was the image from the green pickup, the second frame from the red, third green again and fourth was blue. A spinning filter wheel in front of the CRT added the color. However in 1953 the NTSC completed the standards that continue to this day for analog color television.

Field video was first shot by separate cameras and recorders connected by a cable. The one-piece camcorder was invented by Kodak (which was seeing its home movie business evaporate to VHS) a system we know today as Video8.  These did not have the CCD imager and were not popular, so it sold out its interests to Sony.

The CCD was invented by RCA, and together RCA, Ampex and Panasonic combined resources to make the first broadcast camcorder.  It used VHS tape. Sony came out with its Beta version 'natch, but without the CCD it was not as compact. RCA went broke and Ampex joined with Sony, bringing with it the license for the CCD. Sony could then make the Betacam and Video8 camcorders with CCDs which took the camcorder from curiosity status to the main show.

The color system we use today was invented in 1953 by a committee of very smart scientists and engineers.

Answer 3

"Lovely" posted good info on the first digital still cam, but for color video camera... It looks like that honor goes to RCA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professiona...

As for color video camcorders, that nod goes to Sony and the  their Umatic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umatic

Those were the analog video days.

The first digital cameras were from Sony

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_vid...