Ikegami

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Ikegami Tsushinki Co., Ltd. (池上通信機株式会社, Ikegami Tsūshinki Kabushiki-gaisha^?) (TYO: 6771 ) is a Japanese manufacturer of professional and broadcast television equipment, most notably professional video cameras, both for ENG and studio use. The company was founded in 1946. Although Ikegami is well-known as a manufacturer of high-quality television cameras, the company does not make video recorder mechanisms and is thus a regular licensee of professional video formats (Sony's Betacam SP and DVCAM formats as well as Panasonic's DVCPRO). Ikegami co-operated with Avid on a non-linear video acquisition format called Editcam but this is not widely used.

Many professionals consider Ikegami cameras to be the industry standard for high-end broadcast production. Some of the more well-used models included the ITC (Industrial Television Camera)-730, the HL-79 and the HL-55.

Many of the model numbers of Ikegami portable television cameras begin with the initial letters "HL", which stand for "Handy-Looky". This was deemed an appropriate counterpart to the "Walky-Talky".