A Socket for an Aim recording camera Mk ll
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1940 - 1945
Materials
Measurements
24 mm (Diameter); 36 mm (Length)
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524938.5
Summary
A Socket for an Aim recording camera XX1845 Mk ll This is a small socket to connect three core cable to the base of the Aim recording camera, presumably to connect into the aeroplanes electrics to power the camera. It has two knurled rings one on the socket and one on the securing ring to facilitate fixing and it is marked "DNO 8790".
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986