The noted equipment compliment allowed for two-camera studio operations, and switching to film without having to use a monoscope test pattern or still slide while moving a studio camera into position for film operations.
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The term Charactron is sometimes mistakenly applied to another type of CRT properly called a monoscope which generates an electrical signal by scanning an electron beam of uniform cross section across a printed pattern on an internal target electrode.
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The monoscope contained a formed metal target in place of the phosphor coating at its " screen " end and as the electron beam scanned the target, rather than displaying an image, a varying electrical signal was produced generating a video signal from the etched pattern.
