As someone who works in the television industry, it's simple: it's a niche market and there's very few companies that make broadcast quality equipment. And the other main reason is simply because...
As someone who works in the television industry, it's simple: it's a niche market and there's very few companies that make broadcast quality equipment.
And the other main reason is simply because cameras need big sensors that require cooling and a lot of physical space to capture high quality images. It's just a physics problem.
Oh, and most cameras do a lot more than just capture images. Nowadays studio cameras are all networked together and can easily be remotely operated if need be (though usually they aren't for studio productions). Some even need to be able to precisely recreate the same movement over and over again for shot matching/green screen purposes.
As someone who works in the television industry, it's simple: it's a niche market and there's very few companies that make broadcast quality equipment.
And the other main reason is simply because cameras need big sensors that require cooling and a lot of physical space to capture high quality images. It's just a physics problem.
Oh, and most cameras do a lot more than just capture images. Nowadays studio cameras are all networked together and can easily be remotely operated if need be (though usually they aren't for studio productions). Some even need to be able to precisely recreate the same movement over and over again for shot matching/green screen purposes.