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Rca CC001
RCA's first consumer color video camera purchased at a local garage sale for $5 on June 11 2005. Manufactured November 1978. It is a camera only. To record you had to hook it up to a separate VCR. At present you have to plug the power supply into an AC outlet. The camera has a 20 foot cord however to allow you to move around. You could also use a battery pack and portable recorder. A complete setup may have been thousands of dollars. Today you can get a digital camcorder for $300 that you can hold in the palm of your hand and edit on a computer! Quite a change in less than 30 years! The CC001 has an interchangeable Canon f1.8 6X zoom lens (12.5mm to 75mm). The viewfinder on the side on this camera is simply an empty box you look through. It could be equipped with a 1 inch CRT viewfinder however. Without the CRT viewfinder you would have to use a monitor to focus or simply measure or estimate distance. It is in good cosmetic condition. I do not have the right connector to attach the camera to a television monitor but I improvised with an RCA plug and got it to show an image in white and green.
