14-06-2024, 01:23 PM
(13-06-2024, 11:40 PM)Stuart Wrote: At one time BBC Persia used to have fine black mesh blinds on the windows in 54D when it was dark outside. The lights from All Souls Church, other lit buildings and the headlights of the moving traffic were still visible. You still got the perspective changing when cameras moved, but there was no reflection of the staff operating behind the camera.
Perhaps they could try that again for Newsnight. I don't want to lose the view out of the windows, but they seem to have the same issue that the Daybreak v.1 newsreader's desk suffered from in TLS Studio 7 many years ago.
It was even more clever than that. Each camera lens also had a device on the front where operators could adjust it to open or close the mesh effect to let in more or less (or none!) of the outside lights in.
I never figured out exactly how it worked!
The problem towards the end (before the 54D refurbishment when the desk moved away from the windows) was that so many changes had been made to the streetscape the blinds no longer matched.