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    LW gun camera?

    Just recently aquired this electric camera, but have been unable to find any useful information about it! There must be some label missing, but I can't figure out where it was. It is manufactured by Siemens, runs on 36-40 Volts, is loaded with casettes of 16mm. The instrument on top is a lamp with optical lense in front. The only place I can find FL numbers are on the socket and stecker.
    It has two big wing nuts on brackets (one is missing the mounting screws). The lamp is adjustable with wing nuts marked "M" (classical German WW2 marking for wingnuts). Everything is made of lightweight alloys. The camera can obviously be mounted in different configurations, as there was both a normal trumpet and a mirror to mount in front of the lense with it. There was also an extra lense and a unopened roll of film with it. I would have guessed it was a gun camera, but the lamp and missing markings makes no sense! Any ideas from the LW experts?
















    #2
    No one?
    Not even a theory

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      #3
      This IS a LW gun camera, generally mounted in the wing. I've got one exactly like it.
      Best,
      Leroy

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        #4
        Never seen that type of item before
        A lw camera sound correct, congratulation to a nice finding...

        Ståle

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          #5
          The serial number on the lens dates it (the lens at least) to between September 1939 and June 1942. Probably early 1942, as it's very close to the end of that range of numbers.

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            #6
            siemens gun camera

            hello i am new , and read this thread now , i have same camera , i wonder if somebody has new informations about it , is it realy a wing gun camera , or is it used inside the airplane ? i believe i have seen one filming all the main board with flying instruments . a small light is screw on the top , and there is
            also a 45 degres mirror , i have also identified an unknow cable i own some times , it's wrap on a wooden drum ., with male and female 3 contacts plug
            also surprising is the main voltage for motor 36 volts , normaly , batteries
            are 24-28 volts , 3 X12 volts batteries in serie ? if somebody know a little bit more , please explain
            pierre

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