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Chronology of Gear

  • ½ “ reel to reel Port-a-Pak
  • Bell and Howell 16mm film camera
  • RCA TK76 w angenieux lens
  • Sharp 700
  • ¾” field recording
  • Ikegami 730a w Plumbicon tubes
  • Sony BVW 35 portable Betacam SP deck
  • Sony BVP30 3 beautiful Plumbicon tubes, Schneider and Nikon lenses
  • Sony HD 9000
  • Sony HDV V1u
  • Sony EX1 HD
  • FORMATS  we have actually used
  • ½ inch Sony CV reel to reel videotape.  B&W
  • ½ inch EIAJ-1 Sony AV B&W, and then color
  • 2″ videotape
  • 1″ type C videotape
  • ¾” videocassette
  • Betamax
  • VHS
  • Hi-8
  • Super-VHS, SVHS
  • VHS-c
  • Betacam SP
  • D2
  • Digi-Beta
  • DVD authoring
  • AVID
  • DVCAM
  • Dvision, Discreet Logic, Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Digital Video  DV
  • HDV
  • HDCAM
  • HD
  • Flash
  • Digital video, file based acquisition
  • all internet and electronic delivery formats and encoding
Insights was formed in 1980. We became Insights International, Inc. in 1990.