Ikegami Tsushinki
Ikegami Tsushinki K. K. (. jap.池上 通信 机 株式会社, Ikegami Tsushinki kabushiki gaisha, literally " Ikegami communication devices," engl Ikegami Tsushinki Co., Ltd. ) is a Japanese manufacturer of professional broadcast, video and television equipment. Ikegami is known for professional television cameras and monitors that are used in the ENG and television studio area. The company was founded in 1946. The company's European headquarters is in Neuss.
Ikegami has no VCR in the portfolio, so that the company is a licensee of the video formats Betacam SP and DVCAM from Sony and Panasonic DVCPRO of. But Ikegami offers its own admission procedure on hard disk ( Editcam ), which grew out of a collaboration with Avid.
Cameras and monitors from Ikegami be considered part of the class, specifically what the broadcast (radio ) relates to the field. The model range of Ikegami ranges from "simple" industrial camera for television monitors on portable and studio cameras to HDTV cameras.
Earlier series (professional cameras)
End of the 80s the models ITC -730 and ITC 735 were very common, they were used in conjunction with an attached U-matic recorder, which was supported by an assistant. These cameras were equipped with tubes for imaging Saticon -IV. Beginning of the 90s the first chip cameras from Ikegami came on the market: First, the HC -230, then the HC-300/HC-340, mid-90s, the HC -390, the end of the 90s, the HC -400 and on the aspect ratio of 16:9 switchable HC -400W. The final development of this series is the HC -500W. All these camera heads is the fact that at its back either a triax adapter or can be connected by several Dockrecordern ( when used in multi camera network), which then forms a functional unit that receives the respective desired video format.
Earlier series ( broadcast cameras )
Besides the professional segment also produces Ikegami cameras that are specifically designed for use in radio stations. However, the qualitative difference between the two series is rather low, as well as the professional cameras have always moved at a very high level. End of the 80s there was a tube camera, the HL -79, which was operated with a separate U-matic recorder. The HL -95 was already capable of docking, it was usually operated with the Betacam SP Andockrecorder BVV -5. The first chip cameras in the broadcast segment with digital camera heads were the HL -57 and HL- 59th In the 90s, as Betacam SP was the standard recording format, the compact camcorder HL -V55 had a strong distribution. He was the counterpart to the Sony BVW- 400 camcorder, the tape drive was supplied by Sony. Since Sony did not provide Digital Betacam drives are available, it was Ikegami not possible to participate in the Digital Betacam era and as a counterpart to Sony DVW-700/790/707/970 to bring to the market. There were many users who have at this time bought a camera from Ikegami HC and those equipped with a Dockrecorder for the formats DVCAM ( Sony) and DVCpro/DVCpro50 (Panasonic). In addition, Ikegami also built their own camcorder in these formats.
In the field of heavy studio cameras, whose name always starts with " HK ", the HK -323 was one of the most popular cameras.
The current cameras
Today Ikegami produced several portable cameras, the HC and HL- series as well as several studio cameras HK series. The company offers for tapeless recording, the camcorder " Editcam 3" record (for normal TV resolution) and " Editcam HD" to ( for high definition television, HDTV), which optionally internally to " Fieldpaks " (hard drives ) and " Flashpaks " ( solid state memory ). The company also manufactures cameras for the field of medicine and surveillance technology, high-quality monitors also include the product range.
Ikegami cameras are used, inter alia, of television production companies, free camera crews (EB- ENG or teams ) and by broadcasters such as ORF, WDR and ZDF.
Computer Games
Ikegami developed in the eighties some arcade games for Japanese computer game company. Among other things, block Fever, Congo Bongo, Popeye, Donkey Kong, Radar Scope, Sheriff, Space Fever, Space Firebird, Space Demon and Zaxxon.