Well, I managed to get two viewfinders, one from a Magnavox Easycam 8, and another of unknown origin that says "SONY" on the side. The Sony one has four conductors on one of those transparent plastic cables, two are thicker so I assume they are for power, and the other two are for video. I'm going to leave that one alone until I can find out which model of camera it came from. Anyone here used a Sony viewfinder like this before? The Magnavox viewfinder came from a "Magnavox Easycam 8" and has 5 wires going to the CRT board. Two are power, but the other 3 (which are white, yellow and brown) are a bit of a mystery. I assume one is for sync, one is video in, and one is video ground. Any light that can be shed on either of these will be basked in thoroughly and gleefully. Is feeding a viewfinder power, then plugging video signals randomly into the mystery pins generally a bad idea, or can most of them handle it? Also, is the NTSC signal that comes out of most consumer devices likely to bee at the right level, or will I need to bring the strength down a bit? > Check out the following link: > http://www.supercircuits.com/STORE/prodinfo.asp?number=MON1&variation=&aitem=4&mitem=12 Thanks! If all else fails, I can suck it up and buy one of those. I think that's about as cheap as a new HMD gets :-) Thanks for the help! Ewan _______________________________________________ Wear-Hard mailing listhttp://www.haven.org/mailman/listinfo/wear-hard
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