These pinouts are openly available from the manufacturers of equipment, none of this is proprietary information. I'll grant it's easier than shit to bodge something together for someone like myself, but man, I'm lazy, and I assure you, camera ops aren't all EEs, so there's gotta be SOME market here.

5 pin XLR pinout

1 - gnd
2 - L audio (H)
3 - L audio (C)
4 - R audio (H)
5 - R audio (C)

XLR pinout

1 - gnd
2 - audio (H)
3 - audio (C)

I appreciate the slight curvature to the front of the lens cap. Kind of like it’s a TV screen (this lens is, after all, intended specifically for TV cameras).

That said, this is a HDTV lens so, why it has a SDTV style tube curve (Trinitron shaped) to the front is beyond me, but whatever.

It’s 3CCD so there’s none of that rolling shutter nonsense you get on modern cameras, it’s 3CCD so the colors are accurate, and it’s using 2/3” chips with better resolution than the “AG” line of Panasonic products, so the picture should be a bit crispier.

Well, my wisdom teeth are not helping me (I cannot get way back in the back and they’re all angled such that my back molars are all broken under the compression stresses—ortho won’t pull the wisdom teeth because they think it’ll be too expensive for me, it won’t be), but I’m trying.

Bias power/plug-in power (basically imagine if phantom 48V was actually somewhere in the neighborhood of 2-10 volts, for tiny electret condenser units).