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Originally Posted by Ed in Tx
Your suspicions are confirmed. Got this reply about the camera:
" The DuMont camera has a modern CCD camera inside. It isn't anything that can't be reversed. I simply removed the Image Orthicon and yoke and put a CCD camera and lens in place. I have saved all the parts and documented how it was connected so somebody could put it back if all the other parts (cables, accessory amplifiers, CCU and power supply) ever materialize. I'm missing all those essential components, so this was about as good as it gets."
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Thanks for finding out, yep I had a feeling it was refitted with CCD as the picture greyscales just look too uniform to be IO, I was hoping to be wrong but anyhow, making the camera into a workable prop is better than it not going at all. Someone should invent CCDs that can mimic the characteristics of past image pickup tubes from Iconoscope to IO to vidicon etc. so these incomplete camera chains can be fitted with CCDs that can authenticate the original tube images.