{"id":2789,"date":"2018-06-15T02:56:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T02:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2018-06-15T02:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T02:56:55","slug":"podcast-interview-with-viva-amigas-zach-weddington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=2789","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Interview with Viva Amiga’s Zach Weddington"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of several magazines dedicated to the Amiga.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Back in April I posted the first in a series of occasional blogs<\/a> on the use of now-vintage gear in university, including Newtek’s Video Toaster, with links to Viva Amiga<\/strong>,\u00a0Zach Weddington’s great doc on the iconic computer which housed the Toaster, and enabled musicians to perform & compose, graphic artists to create striking images, and programmers to craft vivid animated games.<\/p>\n

Just posted at KQEK.com is a lengthy conversation with Weddington, and our discussion goes beyond the usual making-of, touching upon the history of the Amiga, and some vintage computing & video gear, making the podcast more of a film & filmmaking hybrid for KQEK and Big Head Amusements readers.<\/p>\n

Our Q&A is available via\u00a0Google Play<\/a>, iTunes<\/a>, Libsyn<\/a>, and YouTube, and you can read a review of\u00a0Viva Amiga<\/strong><\/a> at KQEK.com (which also covers some of the extended interviews available digitally at Vimeo).<\/p>\n

Near the end of the podcast I mentioned an Ikegami ITC-380A ENG camera, which was slowly ‘reawakened’ after I managed to find a reasonably priced power supply on Ebay.<\/p>\n

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Fact sheet for the iconic Ikegami ITC-380A three tube, Saticon camera, in its organge-red glory.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My first & only ITC-380A, repainted grey, with extra black tape to add sublime comfort to the cameraman. She’s been through a few knockaround assignments in her life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I actually bought the camera for its lens and tripod mount that happens to fit my other Ike, a ITC-735, but after tracking down the proprietary power supply, I followed my standard protocol with new cameras: record to disc the first images of the camera as it’s powered up – partly our of curiosity & posterity, in case something unusual happens.<\/p>\n

More than likely the camera hadn’t been turned on in a decade or two, and what emerged was a gradual transformation of blown-out images to relatively stable three colours as each tube warmed up, and the image went from green to red to bluish.<\/p>\n

Here’s a trio of frame grabs from the footage which I’ll edited down into a tight montage an post on Vimeo and YouTube within a week or two:<\/p>\n

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First comes green as the corresponding tube of an Ikegami ITC-380A warms up and produces an image after a likely 10+ years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Then red flares over faint three colours.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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And a balance of red, green, and blue, which requires manual registration of the 3 colour tubes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Also coming to KQEK.com \u00a0is an expanded review of Josh Rizzo\u2019s Welcome to Macintosh <\/strong>(2008), and reviews of the Mind\u2019s Eye<\/strong>, the compilation series from the late 80s \/ mid-90s which showcased then-cutting edge computer graphics (many done on the Amiga).<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nBig Head Amusement <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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