RCA TK45: 1960 Version
Built for the medical industry, this color camera was usually ceiling mounted and looked down at the operating table via a 45 degree mirror. I guess the TK11 type body with handles was needed to support it and that’s why it has a different configuration than the TK41. Here it is on a pedestal. Click to see the whole image. Thanks to Lytle Hoover at Old Radio,com for the photo.
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Is there any record of this camera being used at the networks? The reason I ask is that I have recollections of seeing a camera that looked like and RCA b and w camera dollying in to shoot an overhead closeup of a jewelry item on a game show (probably The Price is Right) that was a color show. I could never figure that out.’
Good to see they were using the “cooking mirror” in the operating room.