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They are light, but not as portable as the canon DV cameras. they have a good set of functions, setup by a touchscreen and controlled during use by buttons and a fly-by-wire ring. We currently use them in preference to all our other cameras for pretty much everything. | They are light, but not as portable as the canon DV cameras. they have a good set of functions, setup by a touchscreen and controlled during use by buttons and a fly-by-wire ring. We currently use them in preference to all our other cameras for pretty much everything. | ||
During their use at Woodtock 2009 the video out and umbilical were dangling directly from the composite socket for some of the show. The weight of the umbilical, and the movement of the camera damaged the composite sockets of two of the cameras. These were resoldered to the circuit board in the Easter vacation of 2010. The previous solution was to use an S-Video bodge CABLE. The fact it is a cable afixed to the camera body ensures that stress won't be placed on the socket and so we should be able to prevent the same thing happening to the s-Video socket. There are now three short male phono to BNC socket cables which should remain securely fixed to the cameras, to prevent the weight of a BNC cable or umblical being suspended from the phono socket. | |||
(In order to resolder the composite socket it is necessary to take off the side of the camera which has the speaker in - ie the side which rests against your face in shoulder-mounted operation. This requires removing four large screws on the large panel, two small screws where the battery would go, one slightly on the right-hand side of the underneath of the lens, and two from the bottom of the camera, perhaps also a couple on the horizontal handle. '''Please don't delete this, it'll save time for anyone dismantling the cameras.''') | |||
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