camera tube

noun, Television.

a cathode-ray tube that converts an optical image projected on its light-sensitive receptor surface into an electrical signal by a scanning process: used in television cameras.

Also called pickup tube.

Compare image tube.

Examples from the web for camera tube

But he was the one who made the image dissector camera tube that put the first images on a television screen.
Sections were mounted in buffer under a cover slip and viewed on a video monitor with a lox objective and a lox camera tube.

British Dictionary definitions for camera tube

camera tube

noun

the part of a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal See also image orthicon, vidicon, Plumbicon, iconoscope