Synchronex SR 500Synchronex SR 500
marketed in 1969-70
standard compact casette
tape speed: 4.75 cm/sec
amplifier: 1 IC, 9 transistors, 1 diode
frequency response: 150-8000 Hz
signal/noise ratio: 40 dB
wow and flutter: max 0.4%
input sockets: Microphone
output sockets: Monitor
jacks: Mic, Mon: 3.5 mm mini jack
synchroniztion jack: 3.5 mini jack
power source: 6 x AA batteries
weight: 1500 g
dimensions: 65 x 125 x 240 mm
made in Japan by ?
Synchronex Super8 System consists of the camera and a synchronised c-cassette player. After you finished taking your images, you placed both the film cartridge and the matching tape cassette in a prepaid mailing bag and you mailed to Synchronex Laboratories in New York. Your films were returned to your magnetically striped and lip-synchronized, ready to be played back on any Super8 sound-on-film (magetic) projector. See the section on Synchronex cameras.
In 1970 the price of camera and record unit was $139.95 and, projector price, $169.95. Print advertisment in Popular Mechanics Magazine, Vol 134, Num 5, published by Hearst Magazines, Usa, November 1970, pages 229.
A similar recording system was the Optasound System.
United States Patent 3297835, Moving picture camera switch with improved rotary contact disc structure, filing date 12/03/1965, publication date 10/01/1967, Jesse L Colodner & Pearl River, asignee to International Camera Corporation, New York, New York.
United States Patent 3582196, Scene commencement indicating device for combination motion picture camera and tape recorder, filing date 12/06/1968, publication date 06/01/1971, Jesse L Colodner & Pearl River, asignee to The Synchronex Corporation, New York, New York.
United States Patent 3583796, Synchronization of pre-recorded audio tape signals of motion picture film, filing date 11/05/1968, publication date 06/08/1971, Jesse L Colodner & Pearl River, asignee to The Synchronex Corporation, New York, New York.
