Ed and Bette Sharpe - at the Rocky Mountain Emmy Ceremony in Glendale, 2007. The Emmy was for production of "The Laura Graff Hit and Run Accident - Search For The Driver".
Welcome to the Ed Sharpe collection of cameras which virtually doubled in size last year when Ed acquired John Smith's cameras. That added an RCA TK44 and TK47, a Norelco PC70 and several TVP pedestals. Although not all of Ed's collection is shown here, the rest of his collection which includes a few small Dage and ENG cameras can be seen on his website for the Southwestern Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation in Glendale AZ, at http://www.smecc.org/
To me, the most interesting pieces of Ed's collection include an RCA TK41, TK30, 2 RCA TK14s and his 3 Phillips LDK20 cameras and chains. One of the LDK chains is up and working and makes very sharp pictures. Speaking of which...here are some 'Sharpe' pictures of his collection! Below the images is more on Ed.
By the way, Ed needs a turret for his TK41. Anyone got a spare in any configuration? I know he would love to hear from you if you have one or know of one.
An Emmy-award-winning director and photojournalist, Sharpe's photography, broadcast and engineering career spans three states and over 4 decades. Sharpe started the Glendale Daily Planet / KKAT-IPTV team in 2004.
Sharpe did his first radio engineering as a youth back in the mid 60's in the Los angles area. It seemed many kids he attend school with wanted to be 'disc jockeys' - Sharpe though could furnish a transmitter! His first use of video dates back to 1968 and directed and taught other students to use the then newly emerging 1/2 video tape technology at the high school he attended.
During his tour in the US Air Force where Sharpe was a specialist in radio communications maintenance and operations, he also participated in doing photography for the "Jet Journal" the Luke AFB newspaper as well as "The Westsider" which covered Goodyear, Avondale and Cashion.
After working as a photographer both for himself and others, Ed Sharpe relegated it back to an avocation when he started Computer Exchange Inc at the end of 1979. his company handled resale ad refurbishment of Hewlett Packard Mini-computers, design of custom interfaces from them, and later sales of new HP microcomputer products and peripherals. Sharpe continued to do photography to document communications history and received the CHRS 'Charles D. "Doc" Herrold Award for preservation and Documentation of Electronics Communion History' at the end of the 1980's
This is a museum with an active interest on communications which consists of a diversity from signal fires to satellites, and computation, embracing counting sticks to supercomputers. In addition to physical artifacts, the museum's collection of paperwork, journals and books provide a solid resource form people doing research on the history of these fields.
After Starting the Glendale Daily Planet /KKAT-IPTV, Sharpe was able to share some of his talent with other media efforts also. Sharpe enjoys getting his work out where it can be seen and enjoyed by others.
Also of note, Ed and the Glendale Daily Planet / KKAT-IPTV was the first Glendale Arizona News Media Outlet to receive an Emmy Award. In addition, this was also the first 'Advanced Media' Emmy to be presented for Breaking news/ Continuing Coverage in the Rocky Mountain Region.
Enjoying all phases of the enterprise Sharpe also enjoys teaching other people that enter the field.
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