or color. It came with a hand-held two-tube camera with a zoom lens. The system was very small and lightweight for its time. The VTR with the video camera weighed only 22 pounds. A single cable was used to connect the ENG camera to the VTR for power, video and the microphone audio. This model was available in NTSC, PAL and SECAM television formats. VTR specs: S/N > 40 dB Playback: about 230-lines of image resolution Capstan Tape speed (EIA NTSC): 254.27 mm/s (10 inches per second); (CCIR PAL or SECAM): 217.97 mm/s Recording time: 26 minutes (NTSC) or 30 minutes (PAL or SECAM) on a five-inch reel One audio track One control track Weight: 16.4 lb. Power consumption: 32 Watts Battery capacity: about 40 minutes Size 10.5" x 14.2" x 5.6" Camera specs (NTSC, PAL and SECAM): S/N > 40 dB One 2/3" Vidicon One chroma Tube, an Akai dissector tube 1.5" VF - viewfinder Lens: 6x - (1.5 to 75 mm) 300 lines of resolution To use without the VTR, CCU-150 powered the camera with 12 VDC CCU-150 had RF output and Genlock sync input Weight: 5.76 lb. Size 3.5" x 9.3" x 13.2" Microphone audio impedance: 600 ohms See also Akai VK References External links VTS-100 in PDF LabGuy's World, with scans of media for multiple Akai devices mardersteig.mynetcologne.de 1972: Akai Portable VTR and Camera Videotape Film and video technology Audiovisual introductions in 1967