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ok so If I am reading this stuff right.
The optical sound amp is gone entirely along with the circuitry to use it.
It was probably never there in the first place, but I COULD be installed if you locate another, but the alignment process is not trivial... These cameras could be ordered with out any sort of sound device, with mag sound, with optical sound or with both.
The lens on the front is missing the rest of it, which would explain why there is just a screw ring on it just floating there. and if i am right i can take this lens off though it seems to be pretty firmly stuck in place right now i may need some anti-rust maybe or I may need some extra elbow grease.
Never force anything on a camera. Look carefully around the mount for a set screw. Since the "dog-leg" viewfinder lenses could be oriented for many types of cameras, they had to be adjustable and once leveled, locked into place to keep them from rotating. Bet there is a set screw and if you start cranking on it, you'll spring the lens mount out of alignment.
I am missing the mains power cord which is a canon style 3 prong. I will look around for it I am sure at least one is out there.
Canon plugs were used a lot on the 1950's and are fairly easy to find. You'll need the schematic to keep from hooking it up incorrectly and frying the electronics.
Yah that's everything i got with it, just the camera, the no doubt 30 year old film inside of it and the portable power pack.
Now as for the power pack, I am an amateur electronics engineer which basically means i tinker around a lot. so when you say that inside it was a vibrating reed convertor good god i can only imagine how hard it would be to use such a thing and can see what you mean by nightmares.
It was a rite of passage for the assistant cameraman...
Now I have another question. for the optical sound amp which I am assuming also required its own external amplifier. since it was stripped out of the camera would that mean it is impossible to put it back in if I found one. Or say i tried to make one.
First of all, the sound amp is external; that's the link I posted to the Ebay auction. It is strictly for magnetic sound; to drive the mag head inside the filmmagnetic recording bracket inside the camera.
Second, the optical amp is entirely different and also external. The (missing) optical galvo is incredibly touchy hardware. The chance of you making a successful copy would be NIL, none, nada. Forget it.
I also had a few questions about some other stuff on the camera. In some of these pictures there is a piece mounted on top of it where I have nothing but what I guess would be poles for a carry strap. and in some of these books it shows a larger box on top with a carry strap there is this just an extra high piece to make carrying easier or does it serve a purpose.
There was a carrying strap, so this is what you are probably missing on top. The extended torque motor housing covered the take up motor for 600 foot magazines; you only have a 400 mag on your camera (I think, hard to tell).
On the back there is a cap over what, if I am understanding correctly is a lens mount for a side lens that would go parallel to the lens that is there in order to properly focus the image. however i don't need it because i can just get a c-mount dog leg lens.
Again, these cameras could be ordered with many options, or they could be left off to save money. That port covering would have housed an internal telescope viewer. The tube would have extended to the film gate area where an internal prism could be slid into position to divert the image to this telescope for focusing and framing. This was called an internal rack-over system, as opposed to the external rack-over system like you see on 35mm Mitchell motion picture cameras. This option would not have been practical or useful to a newsfilm user and was omitted along with the optical sound amp when the camera was ordered from the factory. Your camera could be as new as the 1970's; they were made for many years...
