[QuadList] QuadList Digest, Vol 71, Issue 19

[Steve White]

Great pictures!

Agreed, it is a bit of a mystery:

- Not sure what the camera is focused on ... would appear not to be the 
model
- Based upon the other cameras, the bottom turret port does not appear 
to be the active one.
- Presume the lens with a sunshade is the widest one.  Wonder if that is 
the active port?
- The cable is beefy, perhaps coax; at least one connector appears to be 
UHF.
- The device appears to be attached to or hanging off of the lens.
- Lots of slack in the cable would permit the turret to rotate.
- One of the tally lights is missing its red lens.
- Perhaps not a microphone as turret rotation noise would be significant.

With no room for a floor director on the platform, might it be a speaker 
so the director can pass on directions?

Else, I like the thought that it could be a remote light meter sensor.  
However, if pedestal and gain can be set back at the rack, why?

Why couldn't it be a motorized iris, controlled remotely?  Would come in 
handy outdoors; gets my vote.

Regards,
Steve


On 5/6/14, 5:44 AM, Brian Summers wrote:
> This has been an interesting thread, Thanks very for posting the pictures.
>
> The Gizmo on the lens is hard to identify, the lens is Not a zoon and the
> attachment of the device at the front of the lens is wrong for any kind of
> iris or focus drive.
>
> Looking carefully at the best resolution pics from Bob the cable does not
> enter the camera? It seems to loop through one of the rear feet on the
> camera base and head off down and else ware.
>
> It's a bit of a mystery, it could be a microphone or maybe a sensor for a
> remote lightmeter, don't forget this is an experimental prototype camera and
> the picture is a posed one rather than a real production use.
>
> Best regards
>
> Brian Summers
> Virtual Museum of the Broadcast TV Camera
> Camberley,
> England.
>    
> www.tvcameramuseum.org
> brian at tvcameramuseum.org
> Phone (+44) 01276677879
>     
>
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