Spurred on by some very nice photos sent to me by Tom, I set about entering the RCA Hawkeye camera details into my
Museum website
There are two models of the Hawkeye camera, HC-1 & HC-2, I have photocopies of brochures for them both (downloadable from museum) and the HC-1 is extensively covered in the RCA Broadcast news see :
http://americanradiohistory.com/RCA_...ange_Guide.htm issues 170 & 172
The camera body case style is quite different for the two models see
http://www.tvcameramuseum.org/rca/rcathumb.htm#hc1
So Far so good!
However the pictures sent to me by Tom clearly show the later body style with a manufactures label stating "HC-1". there is a second camera known about, also with a HC-1 label. These two cameras have serial numbers of 1154 & 1150.
Can anybody explain what this is about? were RCA using up old labels?? or what.
Has anybody got one of the first version of the Hawkeye HC-1 or a late HC-2 labeled HC-2?
attachments show the two body styles.
I would appreciate any help here as I know it is very important that the details of these cameras should be correct.