Portapak  

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"Prior to the introduction of the Sony Portapak, "moving image" technology was only available to the consumer (or the artist for that matter) by way of 8 or 16mm film, but did not provide the instant playback that video tape technologies offered. Consequently, many artists found video more appealing than film, even more so when the greater accessibility was coupled with technologies which could edit or modify the video image. Today, these old video projects are starting to appear on YouTube." --Sholem Stein

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The Portapak introduced in 1967 was the first portable video recording device. The first Portapak-type video recorder was the Sony DV-2400 Video Rover, which allowed a single person to record video in the field.

The introduction of the Portapak had a great influence on the development of Video art. Suddenly not only could rich production companies afford to make movies, but artists could experiment with an easier form of recording. You could play it back instantly instead of waiting to process film, and it was much more affordable.





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