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Catching the action.(then & now)(video cameras)(Brief article)
We've come a long way from the video camera gear at left, featured in our September 1985 report. The toprated JVC camera (list price: $949) had to be plugged into a portable videocassette recorder (sold separately for $700 or more). We noted at the time that "you can use a table-model VCR, but it's not ideal."
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