Editing Professional video camera (section)

===Studio cameras===
[[File:Cámaras Sony 1 (cropped).JPG|thumb|Studio camera, studio lens and [[teleprompter]] (from left to right) on a pedestal]]
Most [[television studio]] cameras stand on the [[floor]], usually with [[pneumatics|pneumatic]] or [[hydraulics|hydraulic]] mechanisms called [[Camera pedestal|pedestals]] to adjust the [[height]] and position in the studio. The cameras in a multiple-camera setup are controlled by a device known as a [[camera control unit]] (CCU), to which they are connected via a [[Triaxial cable|triax]], fibre optic or the almost obsolete [[multicore cable]]. The CCU, along with [[genlock]] and other equipment, is installed in the [[central apparatus room]] (CAR) of the television studio. A remote control panel in the [[production control room]] (PCR) for each camera is then used by the vision engineer(s) to balance the pictures.

When used outside a formal television studio in [[outside broadcasting]] (OB), they are often on tripods that may or may not have wheels (depending on the model of the tripod). Initial models used [[Analog signal|analog]] technology, but are now obsolete, supplanted by [[digital data|digital]] models.

Studio cameras are light and small enough to be taken off the pedestal and the lens changed to a smaller size to be used handheld on a camera operator's shoulder, but they still have no recorder of their own and are cable-bound. Cameras can also be mounted on a [[tripod (photography)|tripod]], a [[camera dolly|dolly]] or a [[crane shot|crane]], thus making the cameras much more versatile than previous generations of studio cameras. These cameras have a [[tally light]], a small signal-lamp used that indicates, for the benefit of those being filmed as well as the [[camera operator]], that the camera is 'live' – i.e. its signal is being used for the 'main program' at that moment.