This section contains details for providing a composite video output signal from the camera to drive an external monitor. The circuit described below, designed by Peter Smith, is a combined DC-restorer, switchable gamma corrector and video/sync mixer using a photodiode and LED to sense the 32 holes around the disc`s circum-ference to generate the
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required sync pulses. The negative excursion of the video signal from the camera head is clamped to 0. 8 of a volt by the action of the amplifier IC1 and the diode D1. The black level clamp is set by the ratio of R2 to R1. This determines the amplitude of the resulting sync pulses. The amplitude of the video component of the signal is set by RV1. IC2 is configured as a non linear DC-amplifier. Diodes D2 to 4 and resistors R11 to 13 approximate a square root response (gamma = ½). RV1 should be adjusted for 1V pp video out to ensure proper operation of the gamma correction circuit. With the switch to R5 the response is linear (gamma = 1). The strobe pin 8 of the second CA3140 is connected to the output of the photo diode via Q1. The sync hole detector components PD1 and LED1 must be carefully aligned with the sync holes in the disc. In some cases the duration of the sync pulses obtained by this arrangement may be rather long, leading to a broad sync bar at the bottom of the picture that wastes valuable picture area. Masking the surrounding area of the TIL100 detector `hot spot`, so that the light sensitive area is defined by a small (2mm) hole, can cure this problem.
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