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Camcorder Seiing Red
I have a Canon USC1 Hi8 Camcorder that I have not used in a while.
When I went to use it I found that: 1: The image in the viewfinder looks like someone turn the contrast way down so only the brightest of images can be barely seen. 2: When a recording made from the camcorder is played back on my 8mm desktop player. It looks like it was done in infered. The image is a dull noisey red with black areas denoting lights or Windows. However, when I use the camcorder to record using Line-in, or play back pre recorded tapes, everthing is OK What happen? Has the CCD gone bad? Does not regular use of the camcorder somehow damaged it? Any thoughts? |
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Camcorder Seiing Red
"Zentraleinheit" wrote in message ... I have a Canon USC1 Hi8 Camcorder that I have not used in a while. When I went to use it I found that: 1: The image in the viewfinder looks like someone turn the contrast way down so only the brightest of images can be barely seen. 2: When a recording made from the camcorder is played back on my 8mm desktop player. It looks like it was done in infered. The image is a dull noisey red with black areas denoting lights or Windows. However, when I use the camcorder to record using Line-in, or play back pre recorded tapes, everthing is OK What happen? Has the CCD gone bad? Does not regular use of the camcorder somehow damaged it? Any thoughts? How old is it? If it's more than 4 or 5 years old I would suspect surface mount capacitors are leaking. |
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Camcorder Seiing Red
"Zentraleinheit" wrote in message ... I have a Canon USC1 Hi8 Camcorder that I have not used in a while. When I went to use it I found that: 1: The image in the viewfinder looks like someone turn the contrast way down so only the brightest of images can be barely seen. 2: When a recording made from the camcorder is played back on my 8mm desktop player. It looks like it was done in infered. The image is a dull noisey red with black areas denoting lights or Windows. However, when I use the camcorder to record using Line-in, or play back pre recorded tapes, everthing is OK What happen? Has the CCD gone bad? Does not regular use of the camcorder somehow damaged it? Any thoughts? How old is it? If it's more than 4 or 5 years old I would suspect surface mount capacitors are leaking. |
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Camcorder Seiing Red
How old is it? If it's more than 4 or 5 years old
The Camcorder is 12 years 4 months old. But, I have not used it as a camcorder since the turn of the Century (New Years Eve 2000) I would suspect surface mount capacitors are leaking. It this a part of the CCD? |
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Camcorder Seiing Red
"Zentraleinheit" wrote in message ... How old is it? If it's more than 4 or 5 years old The Camcorder is 12 years 4 months old. But, I have not used it as a camcorder since the turn of the Century (New Years Eve 2000) I would suspect surface mount capacitors are leaking. It this a part of the CCD? No, they're spread all over the circuit boards inside the camera, 12 years old is definitly past the expected lifetime of these capacitors. Most camcorders have several hundred of them, open the tape door and sniff it, if you smell fish then it's the caps for sure. |
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Camcorder Seiing Red
open the tape door and sniff it, if you smell fish then it's the caps for
sure. Put my nose right in the tape door - didn't smell anything. I would suspect surface mount capacitors are leaking. They're spread all over the circuit boards inside the camera What would these capacitors have to do with the image that the camcorder is picking up via its CCD? And why would only "live" pictures be affected while everything else is working OK? |
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Camcorder Seiing Red
In article , Zentraleinheit
writes open the tape door and sniff it, if you smell fish then it's the caps for sure. Put my nose right in the tape door - didn't smell anything. I would suspect surface mount capacitors are leaking. They're spread all over the circuit boards inside the camera What would these capacitors have to do with the image that the camcorder is picking up via its CCD? And why would only "live" pictures be affected while everything else is working OK? There's 2 main parts of a camcorder - the CCD pickup (the cam) and the tape deck (the corder). If one bit goes wrong, the other bit may continue to work. THe capacitors are part of the electronics which makes it work (or not). I have an (even older) Canon E60 which went the same way. First the camera section stopped working, but the tape deck would still play back tapes OK. Then a few months later the tape part stopped working as well. It will be cheaper to buy a new camera than to try and fix it. -- Tim Mitchell |
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Camcorder Seiing Red
It will be cheaper to buy a new camera than to try and fix it.
Been there - done that But, it still seems waistful that a $1100 camcorder only last 12 years :-( Especally since almost every other electronic equipment I have is "falling apart" At lease my 1988 Zenith and 1975 Sony TV's are still working (Knock wood) for now! |
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