Australian colour TV experiments of the 1960s

[Steve D.]

Originally Posted by dtuomi

The viewfinder on the TK40/41 was removable. Its conceivable that they put on a different viewfinder.

Also I've heard, although I couldn't turn up a picture, that GE made an early color camera that was a TK40/41 look-alike.

David

The color camera pictured in the above post is a TK-40 or 41. The original production TK-40's had no vents on the side.
Here's a link to a pix of the GE TK-41 "Look-a-like color camera:
mikecl~1.jpg
Address:http://www.pharis-video.com/mikecl~1.jpg

Also, NBC Burbank modified their TK-41 viewfinders to larger screens as seen in this photo courtesy "Eyes of a Generation website:1.JPG
http://www.eyesofageneration.com/media/images/1.JPG

Just an update on TK-40/41 look-a-likes. If you didn't see it, here is the Russian/Soviet era version of a TK-40/41 as recently posted on the ETF website: http://www.earlytelevision.org/images/urrs41.jpg

-Steve D.