Yes, I had hoped to see the area where the wires are attached and possibly clean that up, but the disassembly would no doubt wreck the filters.
I would suggest that the Kelvilux used the rotating-filter method and the Sixticolor was able to dispense with that because they perfected the electrical solution. Kino: when you rotate the thumbwheel on the side, does the numeric scale disc rotate too?
PS: did you try it in different lights? Does it work?
....and congratulations on 6 bucks well spent!
There is "1956" stamped on the receptor head, but I suppose that's more likely a model number or serial number rather than the year of manufacture. As you say, Gossen didn't abandon this style of housing until the 60s, so it could date from any time in the 1950s. I did find the Sixticolor user manual on Mike Butkus' website. It includes a conversion chart showing Wratten filter equivalencies. It reminded me, though, that when I was working in film or TV we usually corrected color temps at the light source and not by placing a filter on the camera. These color temp gels were never marked with Wratten numbers--just CTO (color temp orange) or CTB (color temp blue). Filtering the sun could be problematic, but not impossible (Big sheets of correction gel stretched across several c-stands). The default choice when filtering the light source wasn't an option was to shoot film with tungsten stock, which we'd have bought for interior scenes anyway, since an amber camera filter would reduce total transmission less than a blue filter would.
The last motion picture camera I used was a Sony F5; somewhere in an internal menu it allows you to adjust for Kelvin color temp. I forget whether it reads the temp for you, but I expect it does that too. So my Sixticolors will remain on the shelf like the Kelvilux.
+100%The part I miss is meeting at the pub after a location shoot. I was working in Dublin, and we got extra pay for location travel. Always got spent in a pub. The rest of it I really don't miss--too much angst. I got into it because I thought it would be creative, but it all turned into management. The best part of shooting stills is not needing to organize..
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