avz10
4th July 2014, 22:09
This is my second video camera that has lasted approximately 5 years and broke.
I first had a Panasonic NV GS250. The image on the screen suddenly turned green. Uneconomical to repair. If I remember correctly, I was able to copy the MiniDV tapes and made DVD’s. I kept the cassettes. I still have the camera, but cannot find the charger.
My second one was a Canon Legria HV40. At some stage, we wanted to look at some of these oldish DVDs. To my amazement and the DVDs appearing relatively well, the DVDs basically all stopped or started jumping at VOB 4 or 5.
I took some of the old cassettes (luckily mostly not useful) and the Canon immediately snapped the cassettes (as the old car cassettes did). It did not do it with the newest cassettes.
Shortly thereafter, my wife went overseas for a meeting, I charged the Canon, put a new MiniDV TDK cassette in. Arriving in Germany- camera is dead. She tried to charge overseas, I tried at home, no luck.
Verdict: uneconomical to repair.
The options that I was thinking of, were:
Trying to get power to the old Panasonic and try to fast forward and rewind the cassettes
Borrow a Canon or other video camera and try to do the same
Any other thoughts?
Any thoughts on what video camera to buy?
Having seen my predicament with my broken cameras, I surfed the internet and got some ideas:
(The camera will be for home and holiday use)
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/avz10/Image4_zpscfafcc70.jpg (http://s261.photobucket.com/user/avz10/media/Image4_zpscfafcc70.jpg.html)
I first had a Panasonic NV GS250. The image on the screen suddenly turned green. Uneconomical to repair. If I remember correctly, I was able to copy the MiniDV tapes and made DVD’s. I kept the cassettes. I still have the camera, but cannot find the charger.
My second one was a Canon Legria HV40. At some stage, we wanted to look at some of these oldish DVDs. To my amazement and the DVDs appearing relatively well, the DVDs basically all stopped or started jumping at VOB 4 or 5.
I took some of the old cassettes (luckily mostly not useful) and the Canon immediately snapped the cassettes (as the old car cassettes did). It did not do it with the newest cassettes.
Shortly thereafter, my wife went overseas for a meeting, I charged the Canon, put a new MiniDV TDK cassette in. Arriving in Germany- camera is dead. She tried to charge overseas, I tried at home, no luck.
Verdict: uneconomical to repair.
The options that I was thinking of, were:
Trying to get power to the old Panasonic and try to fast forward and rewind the cassettes
Borrow a Canon or other video camera and try to do the same
Any other thoughts?
Any thoughts on what video camera to buy?
Having seen my predicament with my broken cameras, I surfed the internet and got some ideas:
(The camera will be for home and holiday use)
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/avz10/Image4_zpscfafcc70.jpg (http://s261.photobucket.com/user/avz10/media/Image4_zpscfafcc70.jpg.html)