Anyone know the kind of camera that was used to shoot the 'Goosebumps' series from the 90s?

[Ricky Brimble]

Very specific, I'm sorry...

I want to get the look of a 90's, shot on tape (with lots of Canadians) show, without faking it with more advanced stuff..

Feel free to educate me.

Thanks!

 

[David Mullen ASC]

Most video back then would have been something like a 2/3" 3-CCD camera like a Sony Betacam unless it was a studio show using cameras on pedestals, but that would have also been a 2/3" 3-CCD camera, but maybe an Ikegami.  So you have the look of a 2/3" 3-CCD camera plus the look of interlaced-scan capture (60i in North America), 60 fields per second, usually with no shutter, so 1/60th exposure per field. Sawtooth edges on moving objects is one artifact of interlaced-scan capture.

An older station might have still been using 3-tube cameras instead of 3-CCDs, where you got that problem with hot highlights trailing a moving object.

And of course we're talking about pre-HD resolution, 720 x 480 pixels for NTSC (if digital.)