[QuadList] QuadList Digest, Vol 71, Issue 3

[mike at bolandcom.com]

Does look like a proto.  This camera is much wider and longer than a TK-41, 
 but with vent intake holes, tally lamps alongside the turret, and the profile of 
 the tube VF of the '41 (but lacking vent louvers?).  Like the early '41s, the 
 cam shown is using three monochrome cam cables (were they 28 or 30 pins?), 
 not the 81 pin connector, that cameras (at least at NBC, as an in-house 
 conversion?) later used. 

 But fitted with a 3:1 zoom, of all things!  (Varitrol? -anyone remember?)

 I hope, like Ted observed, that there were springs in the head.  Elsewise,
 tilt very fwd or back and the cam and cameraman would be doing a 
 summersault off the top of that scaffold !! 

(I think I read that the TK-40 itself was really a proto, with perhaps only 
as few as three serial numbers produced)

(RCA MI-12345?  We used to think that stood for Missing Item)

Thanks!

mike

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On Sat, 3 May 2014 13:31:22 -0400 (EDT), COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:

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 indeed a classic  lash up!
  
 well this is  a  color  rca  camera  but  not a 40  or a 41  case.... .. a prototype!?
  
 ED

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