Museum of the Broadcast Television Camera

Developmental CCD Cameras


The CCD camera's sensor, like the tubed cameras that preceded it, evolved over a period of time before a stage was reached that was suitable for broadcast use.

This page lists some, but not all, of those early cameras.

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List of early CCD sensor chips & Notes


Bell Labs 256x220 camera

CCD sensor


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Integrated Photomatrix Ltd.
c.1969-1970
CCD sensor 64x64


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General Electric TN-2000
c.1976

CID imager 244x188
CCTV monochrome


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Fairchild MV100
1973

CCD sensor



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Fairchild MV101
c. 1974
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Fairchild MV201

1976 (SMPTE vol85/1)
CCD Sensor 244 lines



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Fairchild Cam2000
c. 1982
CCD sensor type CCD222B


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RCA Experimental model

1968 (IBE May 1968 Page 184)


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RCA Experimental Model

The report in the RCA review is dated 1972 but the camera was made some years previously.

RCA Unknown production model

CCD sensor SID 52501


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Reticon LC600
1974
CCD Sensor
Industrial non contact measurement



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Thomson exprimental camera
1979
CCD Sensor type THX 1130


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EEV Photon CCD
1986
CCD type P85000 or P86000
CCTV monochrome


EEV Sentinel CCD
1986-7
CCD type P85000 or P86000
CCTV monochrome


GEC Hirst Research Centre, Wembley
CCD sensor type MA357 14x10mm.
575 Horiz. lines for 625 systems. Report in Wireless World Jan 1981 p41. "Claimed to be the first commercially available CCD sensor with full 625 line capability"



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