Mystery Camera #? (not the OP)

[Kino]

OK, NO cheating. Stay off of Google!

I found this at a local antique mall. I had to use Google, but let's see who knows what it is without searching...

 

[AgX]

Intriguing !

 

[BrianShaw]

Sqiggleflex.

 

[gone]

Probably a Squigglecord. That looks like a Squigglenar lens on it, while the Squiggleflex used the sharper Squigglenon lenses.

 

[BradS]

it looks to me like the scribbleflex which iirc, preceeded the squiggleflex by a few years.

 

[Cholentpot]

You sure it's not a Scratchacord? You can tell by the way it is.

 

[Kino]

Hints:
1. Yes, it's a sub mini.
2. Yes, those are electrical contacts in the lens mount.

 

[AgX]

Well, I found out what it is, but am still busy on that very model.
I guess it will take the rest of the night...

 

[Cholentpot]

it's a Hasselieca.

Duh.

 

[AgX]

Must be super rare... I give up.

This was the hardest run so far.
Kino, I send you a pm on what I think so far.

 

[Kino]

3. It is, believe it or not, an SLR.

 

[AgX]

That was still the most easy to find out. It gets worser.

Good luck!

 

[AnselMortensen]

Obviously, it's a Schnitzengruberflex.
Made in Gondwanaland.
Used as a come-on for buying lawn furniture.

 

[Kino]

OK, unfair of me; its a really obscure camera.

AgX is the only one even remotely close; identifying the Olympus mount.

It is an Olympus SC 16-4 medical/industrial, sub-mini SLR.

http://www.submin.com/16mm/collection/olympus/cameras/sc16_4.htm

How it wound up in an antique mall in rural Virgina is beyond me.

It is certainly an oddity...

 

[AgX]

Well, my idea was, that it is

a japanese subminiature SLR with Olympus endoscopy mount and zoom lens

Not clear to me was whether that is a peeping hole at the back (the photo in that link now show that it is, likely to show a code)

Neither clear to me was the function of those markings at the viewfinder. Kino's idea is that these are color codes taken from the cassette, visible in that peeping hole, to set an autoexposure function. Makes sense. But a mechanical coding at the cassettte would be the better way (likely patent issues).

Still not completely clear is transport and shutter cocking. Must be motorized, with voltage feed through that mount.


What a great find !

 

[BrianShaw]

All of a sudden this is like reading someone else’s diary…

 

[MattKing]

And I had thought that it was some ultra rare, extra special spot meter that only Drew Wiley would have used!

 

[Cholentpot]

As a 16mm shooter I'd love one of these things.