VIDEO 101

The Television Camera

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The TV Camera > Operating Characteristics > Color

COLOR:
Television uses the "additive property of light" (Paint uses the subtractive property of light, so the rules are different there).

According to the additive property of light, by mixing the 3 primaries (Red, Green and Blue) in the right proportions, you can create nearly ANY other color.


LEFT: Note the area where red and green overlap--you get yellow. And where blue and red overlap, you get purple. Combining red, green and blue light equally makes white light. That's the additive property of light at work.

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