Swiss Portables

I couldn't resist including this picture.

Tim Blackam (of Location Technical Facilities) very kindly loaned me his
IV-S's and a rare unmarked SNN for the weekend - for inclusion in the site -
so here we have a fairly high concentration of Swiss 'glittering engineering'.

Clockwise from the front:

A very early version Nagra SNN miniature recorder, a Stellavox SU8 film
sound recorder, a Nagra IV-SJ (NQS-JC) recording sound level meter, a
Nagra IV-S (NQS-TCC) film sound recorder with time code, and a Late
model Nagra SNN miniature recorder.

This image also rather nicely shows that the Stellavox was significantly
more compact than the equivalent Nagra recorder.

Injection moulded plastic had been invented for quite a while, but the
makers of these machines just didn't bother using it much...