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What is a beam splitter on a studio camera?
In an understandable language for someone who isn't too camera savvy
It's proper name is a trichroic prism.
In every day speak this is a prism that splits the light entering the camera into the three primary colours, red green and blue.
Each colour has its own sensor which makes for richer and more natural colours than cameras that have only one sensor.
This is to correpsond with broadcast quality signals which have a channel each for red green and blue, and back in the days before LCD tvs your set would have had three colour guns inside it, one each for red green and blue.
It is just a way of keeping the quality up, you will often see 3ccd or 3cmos on video cameras, this means it has such a 'beam splitter' although the correct term is trichroic prism.
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