So, I ended up buying one for 30 bucks. Time will tell if this was a smart move or not but I do really just want to know more.

At first glance, it looks like the kind of thing that would've been used in an industrial setting. It's built like an old CCTV camera so that's what leads me to that assumption.
I've also seen a couple references to this camera with results about LenelS2 Onguard, which is some kind of physical site-security system.

CCD sensors can be read at very high speeds, which makes them ideal if you need to sync with a flash at the highest shutter speed possible. Looks like you've got a normal PC sync socket on the back for flash.

Aldonist wrote on Yesterday, 22:41:

So, I ended up buying one for 30 bucks. Time will tell if this was a smart move or not but I do really just want to know more.

I own one that we used as apart of our vintage computer portrait business through 2016.

In my case I used a macro/zoom lense inside a concession trailer making big cloth wanted posters with groups 1-13 people

It has roughly 830ish tv lines and in RGBs mode fills beyond the full ntsc theoretical 512 vertical limit .

My system was an antique QLT Futura 100 portrait system with said RGB Camera and Sony RGB scanner.

Had a Shinko CHC545, CHC445, a few video printers for mugs, heat press, mug press, button press dye cutters for jewelry and keychains.
Late in the game I was also using. seiko wax thermal and an HP 2500c for t-shirt transfers.

Honestly sad I was forced to quit, custom on the spot work is nearly impossible because there are no fairs or shows anymore

rmay635703 wrote on Yesterday, 23:31:

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Aldonist wrote on Yesterday, 22:41:

So, I ended up buying one for 30 bucks. Time will tell if this was a smart move or not but I do really just want to know more.

I own one that we used as apart of our vintage computer portrait business through 2016.

In my case I used a macro/zoom lense inside a concession trailer making big cloth wanted posters with groups 1-13 people

It has roughly 830ish tv lines and in RGBs mode fills beyond the full ntsc theoretical 512 vertical limit .

My system was an antique QLT Futura 100 portrait system with said RGB Camera and Sony RGB scanner.

Had a Shinko CHC545, CHC445, a few video printers for mugs, heat press, mug press, button press dye cutters for jewelry and keychains.
Late in the game I was also using. seiko wax thermal and an HP 2500c for t-shirt transfers.

Honestly sad I was forced to quit, custom on the spot work is nearly impossible because there are no fairs or shows anymore

Do you by chance know the pinout of the 4-pin mini din power connector? Or a manual of some sort, as it stands when mine arrives I'll have to disassemble it and manually figure out which pins are power and which are ground. Last thing I wanna do is fry the poor thing you know 🤣

flux1270 wrote on Yesterday, 23:28:

At first glance, it looks like the kind of thing that would've been used in an industrial setting. It's built like an old CCTV camera so that's what leads me to that assumption.
I've also seen a couple references to this camera with results about LenelS2 Onguard, which is some kind of physical site-security system.

CCD sensors can be read at very high speeds, which makes them ideal if you need to sync with a flash at the highest shutter speed possible. Looks like you've got a normal PC sync socket on the back for flash.

I did see it referenced in some of those lenel onguard things but couldn't find much in terms of actual documentation from them, just that they're referenced within. Seems to be a running theme finding information about it 🤣

Aldonist wrote on Yesterday, 23:44:

rmay635703 wrote on Yesterday, 23:31:

I own one that we used as apart of our vintage computer portrait business through 2016. […]
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Aldonist wrote on Yesterday, 22:41:

So, I ended up buying one for 30 bucks. Time will tell if this was a smart move or not but I do really just want to know more.

I own one that we used as apart of our vintage computer portrait business through 2016.

In my case I used a macro/zoom lense inside a concession trailer making big cloth wanted posters with groups 1-13 people

It has roughly 830ish tv lines and in RGBs mode fills beyond the full ntsc theoretical 512 vertical limit .

My system was an antique QLT Futura 100 portrait system with said RGB Camera and Sony RGB scanner.

Had a Shinko CHC545, CHC445, a few video printers for mugs, heat press, mug press, button press dye cutters for jewelry and keychains.
Late in the game I was also using. seiko wax thermal and an HP 2500c for t-shirt transfers.

Honestly sad I was forced to quit, custom on the spot work is nearly impossible because there are no fairs or shows anymore

Do you by chance know the pinout of the 4-pin mini din power connector? Or a manual of some sort, as it stands when mine arrives I'll have to disassemble it and manually figure out which pins are power and which are ground. Last thing I wanna do is fry the poor thing you know 🤣

I was able about 25 years ago to get someone from Kodak that was still around from pre-wrap up of all their closed devisions send me a scan of the manual, I took an Svideo cable and hard wired it to the old Panasonic ccd camera PSU I was using.

The 9 pin can plug directly into certain Amiga compliant 15khz Magnavox and Phillips RGBs analog monitors.

I was obviously only interested in the ground and voltage, didn’t care about the controls because the flash sync functions are at best difficult to setup with proper color and brightness in a semi outdoor location, my Futura grabbed stills in a frame store handling that aspect automatically.

As for uses the Kodak Flashsync Targa analog RGB camera was commonly used at great America to take ride photo stills of all the riders.

It was also used and referenced by medical dental equipment providers as apart of scanners and microscopes. Due to the ultra expensive high end and proprietary nature of the capture device and software everything about it as a part of the medical system is basically walled off and not online.

Kodak also used the camera as apart of their own professional photography setups 80s/90s used by Ollen Mills and others to provide instant images to review and select alongside a Kodak dye sub printer for proofs.

Again being in the ultra high end the camera series (various Kodak ccds were in the line over the years) was treated as being something akin to a keyboard or a light bulb and usually not listed by model with the focus at the system and proprietary software level.

This is one of the 99% of electronic history that is lost from the modern web because it would have never been advertised in a consumer publication only found in parts manuals for proprietary equipment solutions

https://books.google.com/books?id=KE8rAQAAMAA … %20ccd%20camera