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id="html-message"><div id="html-message"><p>Does look like a proto. This
camera is much wider
and longer than a TK-41, </p>
<p>but with vent intake holes, tally lamps alongside the turret, and the profile
of </p>
<p>the tube VF of the '41 (but lacking vent louvers?). Like the early '41s,
the </p>
<p>cam shown is using three monochrome cam cables (were they 28 or 30 pins?),
</p>
<p>not the 81 pin connector, that cameras (at least at NBC, as an in-house </p>
<p>conversion?) later
used.<br></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>But fitted with a 3:1 zoom, of all things! (Varitrol? -anyone
remember?)</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>I hope, like Ted observed, that there were springs in the head.
Elsewise,</p>
<p>tilt very fwd or back and the cam and cameraman would be doing a </p>
<p>summersault off the top of that scaffold !! <br><br></p><p>(I think I read
that the TK-40 itself was really a proto, with perhaps only </p><p>as few as
three serial numbers produced)</p><p><br></p><p>(RCA MI-12345? We used to
think that stood for Missing Item)<br></p><p><br></p><p>Thanks!<br><br>
mike<br><br>
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<p><br><br><br>On Sat, 3 May 2014 13:31:22 -0400 (EDT), COURYHOUSE@aol.com
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<div>indeed a classic lash up!</div>
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<div>well this is a color rca camera but not
a 40 or a 41 case.... .. a prototype!?</div>
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