G'day Ralph. Thanks for the advice and sharing your story on restoring a bomber camera. Occasionally WW2 cameras pop up on Ebay though I usually don't have the money to import them and the mad bidders bid them up over $200 like they do with the Iconoscope tubes, but I believe there will come a time when opportunity strikes.
Yeah doesn't surprise me Yoshi has done work for the big companies with the skills he has and I wish I had the knowledge he has with building cameras as I would of built that solid state IO camera I wanted to build by now. My expertise in building electronic gear so far is pretty much copying off schematics which is what I did with that 2/3" vidicon camera I made
http://www.troysvintagevideo.741.com/mycamera.html and I have done some certificate courses in electronics years back at my local TAFE college and of course working 5 years at OmegaLec
http://www.omegalec.com.au/ which gave me my handyman skills.
Hey just wondering if any video recordings were made from the bomber camera you restored as I would love to somehow obtain a DVD copy of the recording to see first hand the pictures these cameras made and am willing to either pay for the copy or send a DVD with something in return.
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Originally Posted by Ralph S
I restored one of the world war II cameras with the 1846 tube and it works remarkably well, but requires an enormous amount of light. Pretty good picture out of doors in full sunlight; indoors, not too happy. I'd suggest, if you'd like, get hold of one of the old cameras and bring it up to snuff. It's an easy matter to change the vertical and horizontal scanning rates to fit NTSC or PAL standard rates. The only thing you'll really have to build from scratch is a filament and B+ power supply, so you don't have to deal with the original 400~ supply used in WW2.
The Japanese gentleman who built a modern version from scratch is a renown, very high end engineer who did custom jobs for Sony and others. He is NOT your average amateur, so I'd think twice before trying to tackle this job from scratch!
Good luck
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