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I believe I read on another forum sometime back the informed opinion that the PE-15 may have had thermal issues and required a lot of tweaking to keep it lined up. That would make sense if that high placement of the lens turret on the front reflects mounting of the IO's high in the camera, perhaps over sweep or preamp electronics.
It seems that very few of them were sold, in spite of a potential market with CBS, ABC and their O&O stations. Instead, those nets delayed and rolled out color in a big way with plumbicon cameras like the Norelco PC60.
There were TK-40/41 clones from Japan (NHK) to the UK to Soviet Russia, and that's fascinating. I've been checking Eyes of a Generation's site to see if they'll post pix of Martin Perry's PE-15, but so far, nothing.
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