Just got a HVR-Z1, which is the pro version of this camera, they actually added an access port to get to the cassette loading motor contacts. They knew it was a problem and threw the consumers under the bus.
I got an HDR-FX1 with a different problem on eBay yesterday (pinch roller came off) and your video was extremely helpful in getting it open to work on that. Thanks!
Think there might be terminals for the loading motor under the small cover on the base. Not the battery cover the other one. Thanks for all the repair videos, always interesting, really appreciated
Hi, was curious if you know how difficult it might be to replace the eyepiece on one of these. I'm not knowledgeable but let me try to explain and see if I'm correct. You have the eyepiece, then there is another piece that slides/clips/attaches to that for focus control, then you have the rubber eye cup that attaches last. All I have on mine is the eyepiece, no clip on piece for focus and no rubber eye cup. My eyepiece does work, however the vertical rails that the focus piece would attach to are chipped and broken, so I don't think the focus piece would slide on with the condition mine is in. There is a guy on ebay that has all the pieces to replace the entire eyepiece but back to my original question. I haven't found a full tear down video on the FX1, so was curious if you knew. Thanks
I could sense the frustration at the conundrum. It is similar to how I respond to these sorts of things, but nobody can argue that patience is not the key. Only a little bit of valuable experience brings that. Nice job, and wow what a picture it provides. I know there are $50k, 100, hell I bet there is even a half million dollar camera or something but doesn't matter - this one rocks out hard. Enjoy!
Similarly, and pointing it out just because of my knowledge and experience and intellectualism: The conundrum you faced is exactly a tactic of narcissists, at times. They set up situations where you are damned if you do or damned if you don't, hence their now newly-acquired ability to make pretend (falsely) that they have the upper hand against you. Think about it! :)
Like a car. Need to replace the hood release cable, hood needs to be open to access the cable.. That was a nice camera! You kept it in good condition Dave.
Loved how all the cable ports were conveniently placed on the side of the camera -- except for the firewire port, which was at the rear and pointing downwards !!! Had to tip the camera over every time I wanted to attach a firewire cable. UGH!
That was to keep crap from getting into it. Still like this camera but my other ones do shoot a better picture and your arm doesn't get 1/2" longer carrying them around all day.
Great Fun.... Stripped one, actually a ZU1 and reassembled the other night.. : ) Had to force faulty potruding deck down to remove side cover... so will be looking on eBay for a deck...
Yes I did access it from the open door. Once I could actually see the switch. Done that many times on 8mm. I did exactly that on a digital 8 deck a few months ago. This is only about the 3rd miniDV deck I have had open. The only ones I ever serviced was the VX1000. Never got a chance to see many, because they were usually write offs. Cameras would come in that had water damage from all the idiots taking them out on boats. All the newer cameras had a label on the inside of the box advising not to return to dealer for problems. Even my tiny little HDR-HC3, when the lens started acting up on that one while under warranty, I shipped it off to Sony and let them deal with it. That one is still one of my favorite cameras from an engineering standpoint. Probably the best tape that Sony ever made. With that real xenon flash tube for the stills camera. Fantastic. Best of both worlds. An HD video camera and a 4.0 megapixel point and shoot camera with a real flash built in. The real engineering marvel though, and I don't think many will argue on this is the pocket DSC TX100V. 16.2 megapixel, stills with a real xenon flash, OLED screen and full HD video that shoots in 60p and small enough to fit in a pocket. Yes I know cell phones will do that now but they don't have a real flash tube.
Quick question: Would you shoot your videos on a modern full frame (35mm) mirrorless camera, like the Sony a7 III? I'm looking to buy a used a7 Mark III because I want something for both videos and photography. But primarily for video.
Full frame cameras are fine. I have an a77 which is an old apc size sensor. It shoots great 1080p60 video and 24mp stills and I have a couple or lenses for it but I prefer my video cameras. I have an FDR ax100, ax33 and ax53. All 3 shoot 4k video. The ax100 has a 1" sensor 20mp, full manual control and can shoot a still that is pretty close to my 24mo stills camera. It has not only a flip out lcd screen but also an OLED eyepiece which is dead on accurate. My alpha 77 also has the OLED eyepiece. WUSIWUG in that eyepiece. 12x optical zoom is great. My ax33 is more for travel. It's small, has an evf (not OLED but lcos) so it also looks good but not as good as OLED. The stabilization is 2nd to none. 4 axis stabalizibg. 10x zoom lens and is also capable of shooting 20.5 stills. Of course these are jpg only. My dslr will do jpg and raw images. One of the advantages of video cameras is the length you can record. The stills cameras (at least the ones I have tried) stop recording at 29:59. Video camera will shoot till the memory card is full. For long form event recording this is a must. Why do the others stop at 29:59? Because is Europe there is something like an 18% VAT on video cameras. A video camera is one defined as being able to record longer then 30 minutes without stopping. So the manufactures limited the video recording to 1 second under that limit to skirt taxes. Now that might have changed but my a77 certainly has that limit. Other than that I just find the video camera is better laid out for video and a stills camera is better laid out for shooting stills. Just ergonomics mostly. Things like tiltable eyepieces and flip out screens that can be rotated for selfie shoots. Yes my dslr screen can flip around too but not on a tripod it can't.
My cassette tray is stuck in the up position and the cassette mechanism (where you load a tape) door won't open either. The camcorder makes an awful sound almost like a stripped gear sound (which i'm guessing is why the tray is not going down). Not sure why the cassette mech door won't open. I tried to mess with that switch and it hasn't helped. Any suggestions?
I got one recently and the lens is making a weird noise and zooming in and zooming out by itself, and I realized that resetting camera sometimes fixes the problem temporarily but that’s not a sustainable solution on the long run. what should I do? should I change the lens? thank you
Now that was a worry, obviously sony didn't think at all about failure. The recording looked smashing, so no nasty caps playing games. Maybe leave the deck open and put the camera in a dust free box, when you next need it then operate the micro switch a lot before using the deck. That silly switch is a pain in the arse!!.
@@vwestlife the camera was released November 1 2004, and I had one of the first ones to arrive in Canada. I didn't use it long as my business partner was diagnosed with cancer at Xmas 2005 and died in March 2006 and I shut down my wedding production business at the end of 2006.
If it was a Panasonic camcorder or VCR with a serial number starting with D then the D would indeed be April. I don't know if that's true for Sony stuff.
@@vwestlife I am pretty sure it means quarters of the year, I have a Sony HVC-2200 video camera that was manufactured in December 1981 (the date is printed on the certification sticker on the electronic viewfinder), and the date code is 1D. So it means the last quarter of the year.
It seems that Sony rushed to market with this unit. The screw behind the mechanism and the rechargeable button cell on the bottom without connector makes me think they missed some spots to make the unit available to market as soon as possible. However, I like the picture it produces. Even almost 20 years after it still looks good.
It does look good. Many tv shows were done with this in the early 2000s for discovery Channel. Think deadliest catch. News media used them too because they were cheap
I fire up my Hi 8 camcorder about once a month, I only use mine to copy tapes, but hopefully it will work for a few more years. You must have been relieved when you got that camcorder fixed.
This one shoots actually 60 frames, but encodes as 60i, which is what all broadcast TV is transmitted at if it is in 1080. This video was rendered out as 60p. There are other modes that it can operate too. It can do 30p, where the shutter operates only once every 1/30 second and the progressive frame is encoded at 60i. It also does a psudo 24 frame
Hi. Do you have any suggestions for going tapeless with this model? My FX1 is rejecting all tapes as it seems the rubber roller has fallen off. Have you heard of HVR-MRC1 or HVR-DR60? Both built for V1 but can be used as external recorders via FireWire. Therefore eliminating the need for tapes with this unit. I’m wondering if you know other ways to perhaps use newer external recorders like Atamos Ninjas (that take hdmi inputs). Is there a way to output FireWire 4 pin, or component to hdmi?
The firewire runs under colorspace 4:2:0 whereas you can get higher colorspace directly from camera. I gave up on those old cameras years ago and record directly to sd cards. Firewire output is limited to 25mbits. Ninja would be a great option but fx1 doesn't have HDMI only component. So that leaves digitizing the component output.
@@Dyl_Cam The firewire just sends the digital data that is read off the tape directly out to the computer. There's no analog signal generation it's just the data. The problem is that if dropouts occur on the tape the dropouts will not be corrected and that erroneous data will be sent out the firewire and store it in the file. This causes headaches for nonlinear editors because they will interpret this corrupt data as pixelation or the wrong colors or all kinds of weird things and you'll typically have about a half a second of disrupted video. HDD was far more problematic than standard definition DV because standard definition used a fixed 5 to 1 Mjpeg compression. In other words each frame was a full frame. Hdv on the other hand used a long GOP mpeg2 stream. If you've lost a packet you lost the rest of the frames until the next keyframe. So one glitch resulted in 15 frames lost. Now I have found that if I play an hdv tape and I capture it with my new cloner alliance box pro, those glitches off the tape do not appear and this is because the camera or the playback machine has memory inside it and when I drop out occurs it just displays the image that was currently in memory from the previous frame. I will be doing a demo soon I don't have a date when I'm going to make the video as I've got a few things to work on in the shop and this will be done once I have some time but I'm going to make a more in-depth presentation for the cloner alliance box. It will be all demo footage from different sources. I will show it at the three different quality settings from both VHS, betamax, 8 mm and high 8, mini DV and digital 8, hdv, dvd. I will capture the same segments using multiple capture devices. Those devices will be a hauppague hdpvr, a Panasonic DVD recorder, a Toshiba DVD recorder and a Sony GVD700 analog to DV encoder as well as a digital 8 camera that will digitize analog tapes and send output via firewire and of course the cloner alliance box pro, using composite, component and HDMI inputs. The cloner alliance will be set to upscale everything to 1080p at 60 frames. All the other sources will be captured at their native resolution for both ntsc and pal tapes and DVDs. The standard definition recordings will be scaled to 1080 in my editing software. So the frame size will all be the same this will be a great way to compare analog tapes being converted to HD compatible signals using the various pieces of equipment that I have access to. as I previously said I don't have a date to when I'm going to record and produce this video but it will be sometime in the next month I would think. As the weather starts to turn against us and I won't be heading out on my bike I'll have more time to play around with this equipment. Of course as long as stuff keeps coming in to be repaired I give those higher priority but there will be a longer video coming out soon to compare the different types of digitizing equipment that I have. I think you'll enjoy it.
Have a canon XLH1 HD but they have issues when taken off lens and firewire plugs fuse on the board would blow if you did not disconnect the batt i have 2 canon XL2 Also just power them up and run tapes
Execent video! Have you ever serviced a Sony MicroMV camcorder? I have one and the tapes are 30% the size (volume) of a MiniDV. The MicroMV format lasted only from 2001 to 2003 but was impressing the level of miniaturization!!! Service a MicroMV tape mecanism looks like ''Mission Impossible'' ...
It uses the same batteries but i don't remember if the power connector we as the same. It's a flat metal plug the same as the digital 1 used. I had a vx1000 but can't remember if the connector was the same or a plastic connector with 2 or 2 pins on it.
@@12voltvids ok thanks for the reply. I just bought an fx1 in a lot with other items this morning. Says it doesnt power on. You want another migraine to deal with? (haha)
To remove the front cover of my old PC you need to remove the front piece from the CD-ROM tray. This requires ejecting the drive first. To service the drive you need access inside the front of the case. So if the loading belt goes bad, good luck.
Every cd/dvd/bluray computer drive I've seen has a small hole in the front(though it's possible some don't) - push a straightened paper clip in, and it pushes the tray out.
Hi I have the same problem but the only difference is when its on play mode, I hear a ticking sound and the playback would do stop and go........Help. Should I just grease them things and hopfully it would loosesn up.
That ticking and squeaking sound is called stiction and it is the tape physically sticking to the guides and rollers. The tape is breaking down. Look up sticky shed syndrome. It has plagued audio users for years and unfortunately it is starting to raise it's ugly head in video tape too. Another problem is mold if tapes are not stored correctly. This is why everyone needs to get everything they treasure on video tape NOW as in today. Don't want for tomorrow or next week or next year. If you have valuable content that you want to preserve get it on DVD or Bluray disk media and to a hard drive. I have DVD disks that are well over 20 years old that play perfectly and CDR disks even older than that that still play. If people were still buying DVD and BD players the manufactures would still be making them, but because people stopped buying many companies stopped making them. Everyone is throwing their eggs in one basket. They are putting stuff on their computer, or external hard drives but all it takes is one drop and everything is gone. USB sticks don't last much beyond 7 years, and SSD is just as unreliable as the data must be refreshed and rewritten to different sectors or it can just vanish, so not good for long store storage where it is not powered up regularly. Cloud storage is also a red herring. What is to say that down the road the cloud provider is not sold to another company that revises their user agreement and then jacks up the monthly storage to eye watering levels. Once everyone has everything in the cloud, or changed theor policy to now own all your content and grant themself permission to use your photos for their own gain. Everything you value needs to be backed up onto multiple formats. When I do digital archiving for my customers 9 out of 10 take their footage back on a USB stick or hard drive and a second copy on DVD or Bluray.
Very good video. I was tempted to buy a used one today but now I will nix'nay that idea'ay. (Cancel my used purchase idea) In years past (2000 ish) I spent $3k on a used vx3 3 chipper and had a faulty audio costing an additional repair $300 so definately buying used can be an issue. (yes you purchased yours brand new). I'd love to get one of the camcorders you recommend there as I'm not sure if my zv1 will be better and I don't have the patience or willpower to learn a dslr:) Im waiting for the "supposed" new Canons coming out but ...at some point how long can a person wait cheers
What do you want it for? Video or stills. If the answer is video grab a used fdrax33 and be done. That is one of the best little cameras I own. Small, optical stabalization, 4k video 1080p60 video and it will shoot 20.6mp stills. I have one and shot hundreds of my RUclips videos with it. I use an ax53 now as it has a longer zoom lens 20x vs 10 so I can get closer close up shots without having to bring the camera in closer. The ax100 is also an even better choice but costs quite a bit more but has larger sensor so can shoot with a shallow depth of field. When traveling i usually take the little one just because the quality is fantastic and i am not carrying around a large camera but for photography trips I use my ax100 for both stills and video.
The "E" model is Europe. 625 line PAL in SD and 50i frame rate. Even in HD it is based on European frame rate. The video produced playa on PAL and multi system TV only. Plug it into an older tv that doesn't support PAL and it won't work. Fortunately all the new TV's support multi system video.
I was brought in to a hotel as an executive and they just wanted me to be basic employee. (I folded laundry and did the breakfast) They were shocked that I did not want to work with them that much. (same name type)
I had a nightmare with a prosumer Sony VX2000 3 chip that had random horrible hum in the audio. You could turn it on and get nothing and the next time a horrible hum. I sent it off twice to Sony only to have it returned with the same issue. I sent it off again and waited for a month or two only to be told that they can’t find any issue and that they were returning the camera to me even after sending them a tape recorded with the hum issue. It ended up with me getting very irritable with the support team and asking for their supervisor and by that time they had a new model so they sent me the new model with no issues. What a relief that was!!
I have probably said those same words and worse working on some things, or when dealing with idiots, like the goof that reports every video is post to every executive at Google and RUclips he can find trying to get my channel taken down.
@@guitareveryone it's John Senchak and he is a troll that I banned. I banned his 20 different alt versions of his name too. He gets upset when I post. Says i an spamming him. He is the one that selected to be notified when j post new videos not me. The guy is a douchebag and that is putting it mildly.
I have learned something about these types of camera. Don't buy them. I got my little Aiptek flash based camera back in the day and it still works to this day. No moving parts, no tapes. I did have an issue with the power button and the multifunction wheel but I was able to fix it. Also the front strap mount broke but a red hot wire later fixed that. And the battery door clips broke from use but I put a hair tie on it.
Tape is something we can all do without today. Sorry I just pissed off all those that think tape is better, just like there are some that think vinyl is better and pay a fortune for old junky turntables.
@@12voltvids It's ok the only thing I have that's tape is audio cassettes and VHS tapes. I listen to MP3s and record on digital. I bought two preamps for my TT and they both don't work so I just stick with mp3s.
SD cards are not much better. You are recording to a file on a device that holds a filesystem. There are so many abstractions in the way that any one of them can fail and break the file, entirely, or half way, or the entire card itself. Give me flash media that does not act like a disc, and I will love it. Tape has problems because its old, but as a recording media it is much more resilient to "issues" than flash as tape is simply a dumb stream of bytes. As long as the tape does not chew up, and damage to the tape or video stream can be bypassed by simply letting it play. Like HDV tape, flash based recorders use the transport stream format (unless they are my DSLR which crazily uses MOV), as that file format also has that resiliency. Errors in that file thus don't damage the rest of the file beyond that point, only the damaged portion is affected. Transport stream is also used in TV broadcasts for that reason, its great. However the medium that is used will affect the resiliency, flash is not anything like tape. All of its "improvements" are merely seen that way because they are just more convenient. But when that SD card just dies on you, which they do, the entire card dies. Everything goes with it. I'd rather use tape than hope that I have enough money for data recovery services, and they don't usually recover SD cards as they are not worth as much as recovering a HDD. I have plenty of SD cards in many devices, so its not like I dont use them. I have a bunch of them in front of me, my DSLR, a cheap model, only uses one and I never let data sit on it more than a few hours. I just respect the fact that a medium, and recording format that is able to ignore errors, digital and physical ones, is superior to a format that is only liked because of convenience. A friend of mine has had a much more different experience with SD cards that he simply puts into the digital camera, where it happily stores the photos, then he phones me because one of the cards has died totally and the other card is working but half the pictures are a corrupted mess and a third are "gone" which I usually get back using recovery software. What make were these cards? Well, the supposed king of flash: sandisk. Oh year, one of my 64GB flash drives died on the shelf. 64GB gone, in a flash. Luckily knowing this failure is possible I never store data on flash, only transport it. So, tape is old, superior and old and will jam up and become annoying. SD is convenient, but that comes at a cost. When my HDV camcorder needs replacing, what will I get... well the only smart thing is to get a 2 SD recorder. Have the camcorder record to 2 cards at once, that's what the pro's do in pro level DSLR's and camcorders, for the reasons I stated. Oh and no, never get HUGE insanely big SD cards. No 128GB cards, unless I'm doing 4K which is unlikely as I don't have a 4K TV so no point yet. Nope, small SD cards, different manufacturers, dual recording, swap frequently = less chance of losing your holiday video. Oh and I always stress the SD card to rest it. I write to every sector several times, a proper test, I have killed weaker cards that way.
@@dlarge6502 SD cards can and do fail. I have had one fail. I was having problems recently on my newer camera with a Sandisk card, but it was more of a speed issue. Not fast enough. Didn't lose any files, just the camera ran out of buffer. I believe the old camera didn't have the issue as the camera had more memory internal and just buffered the video until the card caught up. Tape however has so many issues I can't overlook. Drop outs for starters. Especially when dealing with a long GOP like HDV. A dropout results in losing 1/2 second of video. I have had more issues with USB thumb drives. Controller chip dies and no more access. In fact I have only had 1SD card actually fail and that was because the contacts wore out from putting it in the camera so many times. I don't use SD cards for long term storage though. I shoot and then transfer right away to external removable hard drives. When I travel I haul my laptop with me to download daily. I do have software I bought that has recovered damaged video files.
It looks cool. You sure know you have it after hauling it around all day. It draws attention. When i have been filming in parks i have on more than one occassion been asked for my film permit. In certain parks when i was doing weddings the city wanted a film permit, because a wedding was considered a commercial shoot. I was more then happy to surprise the couple when the got the bill with the filming permit and receipt attached. I should only say it happened once. I had been working with the photographer and wedding party and i was pinched by an enforcement officer as we were breaking down and packing up. The couple didn't even see what was going on and the stills photographer and his assistant saw the bylaw guy approach me and he hightailed it the other way. Was issued a 500 ticket for filming in a city park without a permit. The guy had been watching us work for awhile and waited till we were done as to not cause a scene and got me while i was loading equipment in my truck. I showed it to the couple at the reception and they couldn't believe it but in the end they paid. I'm so glad that I don't shoot weddings anymore. Now had I been using a small camera it would not have drawn any attention because I could have blended in just like a guest. I was shooting with a betacam when this happened.
@@tacofortgens3471 why would i? If you are shooting a movie in a park for example with a crew yes, but shooting scenery or any other non commercial stuff no.
Hope mine never does this! Love my unit that is in great shape like yours. What a stupid design though! Guess we can’t really be shocked though, as it was Sony who felt tape opening from the base of a camera so you have to remove it from the tripod was a great idea! What made it worse they did it on so many units for years. You would think they would of stop after one product 😂
They all made HDV cameras for awhile. Some were 720p and others 1080i. I have a big JVC gydv500 that needs service. Should I fix that one? It's just a standard def, but an ENG type with 3ccd camera.
@@12voltvids My canon HDV does 1080p, only in the 25fps mode however which is what I film everything at anyway. I cant stand the soap opera effect. It has to record the progressive frame as two fields in the interlaced video, they line up to make the progressive frame with a reduction of half the frame rate.
@@dlarge6502 You sure about that? HDV had 2 recording modes in the spec, 720P60 and 1080i60. My camera can run in 3 modes. 24P frame 3:2 pull down to 60i, 30P encoded as 60i and 60i. Both the slow frame rates drive me crazy especially the 24 frame simulated mode. My 4K camera has true 24P and 30P. The 24 frame mode is totally useless. Yes I know it gives the cinematic effect, but I hate it. I don't go to movies because I just can't stand slow frame rates. Needless to say I haven't watched movies in years.
That Sony HDR FX1 came my way after the owner had dropped it over the side of a speedboat on a corporate shoot. It was the 1st time he used it & it floated just long enough for him to pick it up. It was ruined & when i opened it the seawater had destroyed almost every copper piece of track or ic pin. I wrote a report as to why the unit was not worth repairing, especially the lens which was still full of water! 8 weeks later the owners insurance company came to me demanding why i had advised he make a claim. Their assessor became an asshat accusing me of all the damage! Then they shipped the camera to an independent ultrasonics lab that cleaned stuff where they tanked it & returned it. Most chips were gone from PCBs and the optical elements had changed color. The insurance company demanded that now it was clean i could make it work or they'd sue me.... A letter from my solicitor saved my butt although the whole nightmare had me out of pocket almost $1000 & no path for any compensation. I no longer touch any pro equipment like this that's had swimming lessons...
@@12voltvids No, the mode wheel in the mechanism; usual symptom is the carriage will not close and latch, with an error code. ruclips.net/video/lXvZ1No5azc/видео.html
Sony are not THAT dumb. You can force the eject/closure of the mechanism from the access panel at the base. Here's an HVR-Z1E, but the HDR-FX1 is just the same. ruclips.net/video/IlpDTQ4YXKA/видео.html
Well when you have the service manual handy then you know where to apply power. I don't have the manual for this model, and going in, did not expect the side cover to be trapped by the mechanism. Good information for future work on this one if it ever needs it again. Remember I got this one 2 years after I left the business, so no access to manuals or service data.
@@12voltvids You did have to work it all out for yourself (or spend $25 for a service manual), in the old days. Now you can get them all online, for free.
@@dwilliamson8539 Manuals were never 25.00 I paid about 130 for the CCDVX3 I used to have and never opened the manual. I got rid of the camera but still have the manual. Online manuals are a joke. I can't work off a small screen. I need the full manual that I can lay out on the bench and trace electrons. Going from page to page is a joke, and even printing and sticking pages together is the shits. Scans are never good enough to read anything.
HaHa, you apologize about making too many camcorder videos. I watch any and all of your vids because it's like watching a brain surgeon work on cyborgs. You need to upload your brain to the internet for posterity.
Video ftom this cam need to upscale in 4K before upload in RUclips, - that's a good way to preserve sharp and deep of black, contrast. Yeah, it's not rational, but the result is awesome!
Everything JVC has ever made was junk. Junk very cheap. Or junky video company. Take your pick. I have a gydv500 with only about 200 hours on it and it's toast.
i love the picture quality of this cam with its ccd Sensor colors and analog look
Just got a HVR-Z1, which is the pro version of this camera, they actually added an access port to get to the cassette loading motor contacts. They knew it was a problem and threw the consumers under the bus.
Well done on such a tricky repair.
Man what a patience tester hu.
I got an HDR-FX1 with a different problem on eBay yesterday (pinch roller came off) and your video was extremely helpful in getting it open to work on that. Thanks!
Was this hard to fix? My rubber roller came off and fx1 isn’t accepting tapes. I keep getting an error. And can’t find the pinch.
Looks really natural in colour and excellent detail. 😎
now thats a job and a half thank goodness you have the patience for that job
It was worse than yug saw. I cut much out.
Think there might be terminals for the loading motor under the small cover on the base. Not the battery cover the other one. Thanks for all the repair videos, always interesting, really appreciated
No that is for loading software unless there is a jig that has loading motor terminals on it. A jig that I don't have.
Nice fix as always,you live at a nice place.Greetings from the Philippines.
Hi, was curious if you know how difficult it might be to replace the eyepiece on one of these. I'm not knowledgeable but let me try to explain and see if I'm correct. You have the eyepiece, then there is another piece that slides/clips/attaches to that for focus control, then you have the rubber eye cup that attaches last.
All I have on mine is the eyepiece, no clip on piece for focus and no rubber eye cup. My eyepiece does work, however the vertical rails that the focus piece would attach to are chipped and broken, so I don't think the focus piece would slide on with the condition mine is in.
There is a guy on ebay that has all the pieces to replace the entire eyepiece but back to my original question. I haven't found a full tear down video on the FX1, so was curious if you knew.
Thanks
a lovely west coast springtime!
I could sense the frustration at the conundrum. It is similar to how I respond to these sorts of things, but nobody can argue that patience is not the key. Only a little bit of valuable experience brings that. Nice job, and wow what a picture it provides. I know there are $50k, 100, hell I bet there is even a half million dollar camera or something but doesn't matter - this one rocks out hard. Enjoy!
Similarly, and pointing it out just because of my knowledge and experience and intellectualism: The conundrum you faced is exactly a tactic of narcissists, at times. They set up situations where you are damned if you do or damned if you don't, hence their now newly-acquired ability to make pretend (falsely) that they have the upper hand against you. Think about it! :)
oh, one more thing. Born/raised NYC: It's pronounced "Rah-jeet." :)
Like a car. Need to replace the hood release cable, hood needs to be open to access the cable.. That was a nice camera! You kept it in good condition Dave.
Mint condition.
Loved how all the cable ports were conveniently placed on the side of the camera -- except for the firewire port,
which was at the rear and pointing downwards !!! Had to tip the camera over every time I wanted
to attach a firewire cable. UGH!
That was to keep crap from getting into it. Still like this camera but my other ones do shoot a better picture and your arm doesn't get 1/2" longer carrying them around all day.
Great Fun.... Stripped one, actually a ZU1 and reassembled the other night.. : ) Had to force faulty potruding deck down to remove side cover... so will be looking on eBay for a deck...
FX1 was my first HD camcorder back in late 2000's.
Same here. Got it when it first came out. Used it as a telecine camera when everything was optical.
This is usually a 2 minute repair, as you can access the drop switch on the mechanism from the open door and put a couple of drops of Servisol in it.
Yes I did access it from the open door. Once I could actually see the switch. Done that many times on 8mm. I did exactly that on a digital 8 deck a few months ago. This is only about the 3rd miniDV deck I have had open. The only ones I ever serviced was the VX1000. Never got a chance to see many, because they were usually write offs. Cameras would come in that had water damage from all the idiots taking them out on boats. All the newer cameras had a label on the inside of the box advising not to return to dealer for problems. Even my tiny little HDR-HC3, when the lens started acting up on that one while under warranty, I shipped it off to Sony and let them deal with it. That one is still one of my favorite cameras from an engineering standpoint. Probably the best tape that Sony ever made. With that real xenon flash tube for the stills camera. Fantastic. Best of both worlds. An HD video camera and a 4.0 megapixel point and shoot camera with a real flash built in. The real engineering marvel though, and I don't think many will argue on this is the pocket DSC TX100V. 16.2 megapixel, stills with a real xenon flash, OLED screen and full HD video that shoots in 60p and small enough to fit in a pocket. Yes I know cell phones will do that now but they don't have a real flash tube.
Quick question: Would you shoot your videos on a modern full frame (35mm) mirrorless camera, like the Sony a7 III? I'm looking to buy a used a7 Mark III because I want something for both videos and photography. But primarily for video.
Full frame cameras are fine. I have an a77 which is an old apc size sensor. It shoots great 1080p60 video and 24mp stills and I have a couple or lenses for it but I prefer my video cameras. I have an FDR ax100, ax33 and ax53. All 3 shoot 4k video. The ax100 has a 1" sensor 20mp, full manual control and can shoot a still that is pretty close to my 24mo stills camera. It has not only a flip out lcd screen but also an OLED eyepiece which is dead on accurate. My alpha 77 also has the OLED eyepiece. WUSIWUG in that eyepiece. 12x optical zoom is great. My ax33 is more for travel. It's small, has an evf (not OLED but lcos) so it also looks good but not as good as OLED. The stabilization is 2nd to none. 4 axis stabalizibg. 10x zoom lens and is also capable of shooting 20.5 stills. Of course these are jpg only. My dslr will do jpg and raw images. One of the advantages of video cameras is the length you can record. The stills cameras (at least the ones I have tried) stop recording at 29:59. Video camera will shoot till the memory card is full. For long form event recording this is a must. Why do the others stop at 29:59? Because is Europe there is something like an 18% VAT on video cameras. A video camera is one defined as being able to record longer then 30 minutes without stopping. So the manufactures limited the video recording to 1 second under that limit to skirt taxes. Now that might have changed but my a77 certainly has that limit. Other than that I just find the video camera is better laid out for video and a stills camera is better laid out for shooting stills. Just ergonomics mostly. Things like tiltable eyepieces and flip out screens that can be rotated for selfie shoots. Yes my dslr screen can flip around too but not on a tripod it can't.
My cassette tray is stuck in the up position and the cassette mechanism (where you load a tape) door won't open either. The camcorder makes an awful sound almost like a stripped gear sound (which i'm guessing is why the tray is not going down). Not sure why the cassette mech door won't open. I tried to mess with that switch and it hasn't helped. Any suggestions?
I got one recently and the lens is making a weird noise and zooming in and zooming out by itself, and I realized that resetting camera sometimes fixes the problem temporarily but that’s not a sustainable solution on the long run. what should I do? should I change the lens? thank you
Now that was a worry, obviously sony didn't think at all about failure.
The recording looked smashing, so no nasty caps playing games.
Maybe leave the deck open and put the camera in a dust free box, when you next need it then operate the micro switch a lot before using the deck.
That silly switch is a pain in the arse!!.
It's got cleaner in it now so should hold out.
Well done , 👍thanks again go on paypal everyone , well worth it to see repair videos thanks again dave.
The "5D" on the bottom is the date code. 5 = 2005, D = fourth quarter of the year.
D would be April
@@12voltvids The quarters of the year part is just a guess. I've never seen these Sony date codes with letters any higher than D.
@@vwestlife the camera was released November 1 2004, and I had one of the first ones to arrive in Canada. I didn't use it long as my business partner was diagnosed with cancer at Xmas 2005 and died in March 2006 and I shut down my wedding production business at the end of 2006.
If it was a Panasonic camcorder or VCR with a serial number starting with D then the D would indeed be April. I don't know if that's true for Sony stuff.
@@vwestlife I am pretty sure it means quarters of the year, I have a Sony HVC-2200 video camera that was manufactured in December 1981 (the date is printed on the certification sticker on the electronic viewfinder), and the date code is 1D. So it means the last quarter of the year.
It seems that Sony rushed to market with this unit.
The screw behind the mechanism and the rechargeable button cell on the bottom without connector makes me think they missed some spots to make the unit available to market as soon as possible.
However, I like the picture it produces. Even almost 20 years after it still looks good.
It does look good. Many tv shows were done with this in the early 2000s for discovery Channel. Think deadliest catch. News media used them too because they were cheap
Very nice. I have the same problem with my Sony 8mm camera
Yes I have had a few digital 8 recently with the same switch.
Thanks for this informative video other Sony FX1....sorry it doesn't has the LAN Connection!
I fire up my Hi 8 camcorder about once a month, I only use mine to copy tapes, but hopefully it will work for a few more years. You must have been relieved when you got that camcorder fixed.
I won both the Fx1 and the newer AX700. The low light quality picture of the FX1 is unmatched still. Of course according to my limited knowledge.
My fdrax100 has very good low light capability
woow the lcd sun funtion is great :)
The eyepiece is superrior however.
I have one of the FX1 in excellent physical condition! However it's not loading the tapes and keeps on saying reinsert tape with flashing C31 :22 code
PERFECT BRAVO !!!
Excellent 720p60 video this thing shoots! Would have been sad if it was irreparable due to this stupid design.
This one shoots actually 60 frames, but encodes as 60i, which is what all broadcast TV is transmitted at if it is in 1080. This video was rendered out as 60p.
There are other modes that it can operate too. It can do 30p, where the shutter operates only once every 1/30 second and the progressive frame is encoded at 60i. It also does a psudo 24 frame
Hi. Do you have any suggestions for going tapeless with this model? My FX1 is rejecting all tapes as it seems the rubber roller has fallen off. Have you heard of HVR-MRC1 or HVR-DR60? Both built for V1 but can be used as external recorders via FireWire. Therefore eliminating the need for tapes with this unit. I’m wondering if you know other ways to perhaps use newer external recorders like Atamos Ninjas (that take hdmi inputs). Is there a way to output FireWire 4 pin, or component to hdmi?
The firewire runs under colorspace 4:2:0 whereas you can get higher colorspace directly from camera. I gave up on those old cameras years ago and record directly to sd cards. Firewire output is limited to 25mbits.
Ninja would be a great option but fx1 doesn't have HDMI only component. So that leaves digitizing the component output.
@@12voltvids The FireWire should be just as good as tapes right? If not slightly better?
@@Dyl_Cam The firewire just sends the digital data that is read off the tape directly out to the computer. There's no analog signal generation it's just the data. The problem is that if dropouts occur on the tape the dropouts will not be corrected and that erroneous data will be sent out the firewire and store it in the file. This causes headaches for nonlinear editors because they will interpret this corrupt data as pixelation or the wrong colors or all kinds of weird things and you'll typically have about a half a second of disrupted video. HDD was far more problematic than standard definition DV because standard definition used a fixed 5 to 1 Mjpeg compression. In other words each frame was a full frame. Hdv on the other hand used a long GOP mpeg2 stream. If you've lost a packet you lost the rest of the frames until the next keyframe. So one glitch resulted in 15 frames lost. Now I have found that if I play an hdv tape and I capture it with my new cloner alliance box pro, those glitches off the tape do not appear and this is because the camera or the playback machine has memory inside it and when I drop out occurs it just displays the image that was currently in memory from the previous frame. I will be doing a demo soon I don't have a date when I'm going to make the video as I've got a few things to work on in the shop and this will be done once I have some time but I'm going to make a more in-depth presentation for the cloner alliance box. It will be all demo footage from different sources. I will show it at the three different quality settings from both VHS, betamax, 8 mm and high 8, mini DV and digital 8, hdv, dvd. I will capture the same segments using multiple capture devices. Those devices will be a hauppague hdpvr, a Panasonic DVD recorder, a Toshiba DVD recorder and a Sony GVD700 analog to DV encoder as well as a digital 8 camera that will digitize analog tapes and send output via firewire and of course the cloner alliance box pro, using composite, component and HDMI inputs. The cloner alliance will be set to upscale everything to 1080p at 60 frames. All the other sources will be captured at their native resolution for both ntsc and pal tapes and DVDs. The standard definition recordings will be scaled to 1080 in my editing software. So the frame size will all be the same this will be a great way to compare analog tapes being converted to HD compatible signals using the various pieces of equipment that I have access to. as I previously said I don't have a date to when I'm going to record and produce this video but it will be sometime in the next month I would think. As the weather starts to turn against us and I won't be heading out on my bike I'll have more time to play around with this equipment. Of course as long as stuff keeps coming in to be repaired I give those higher priority but there will be a longer video coming out soon to compare the different types of digitizing equipment that I have. I think you'll enjoy it.
Sony marketing slogans: Go Create and like.no.other. Can't argue with that..
Don't forget. "it's a Sony"
@@12voltvids "Sony... The one and only"... Thank heavens for that! Fred
Have a canon XLH1 HD but they have issues when taken off lens and firewire plugs fuse on the board would blow if you did not disconnect the batt i have 2 canon XL2 Also just power them up and run tapes
Execent video! Have you ever serviced a Sony MicroMV camcorder? I have one and the tapes are 30% the size (volume) of a MiniDV. The MicroMV format lasted only from 2001 to 2003 but was impressing the level of miniaturization!!! Service a MicroMV tape mecanism looks like ''Mission Impossible'' ...
Hey I have that blue authorised Sony screwdriver from my electronic repair days!
I had another one but my ding bat daughter managed to snap the bit.
First couple of pages of the service manual for this camcorder actually go over how to actuate the tape loader fwiw.
Don't have the service manual
Do you happen to know, is the power supply the same for this model as used on the vx2000/vx2100? And I belive it takes L series batteries?
It uses the same batteries but i don't remember if the power connector we as the same. It's a flat metal plug the same as the digital 1 used. I had a vx1000 but can't remember if the connector was the same or a plastic connector with 2 or 2 pins on it.
@@12voltvids ok thanks for the reply. I just bought an fx1 in a lot with other items this morning. Says it doesnt power on. You want another migraine to deal with? (haha)
I think it's a beautiful camera with high quality image
It was like 6000 it does look good
5D is date code on Sony product, 2005 it is
usually they make the expensive pro type products more repairer friendly, but i guess they didn't follow that "rule" at sony
How lucky when I just started up youtube... :D
To remove the front cover of my old PC you need to remove the front piece from the CD-ROM tray. This requires ejecting the drive first. To service the drive you need access inside the front of the case. So if the loading belt goes bad, good luck.
Every cd/dvd/bluray computer drive I've seen has a small hole in the front(though it's possible some don't) - push a straightened paper clip in, and it pushes the tray out.
@@DoubleMonoLR In this case the custom bezel the case uses covers where the hole would be.
Hi
I have the same problem but the only difference is when its on play mode, I hear a ticking sound and the playback would do stop and go........Help. Should I just grease them things and hopfully it would loosesn up.
That ticking and squeaking sound is called stiction and it is the tape physically sticking to the guides and rollers. The tape is breaking down. Look up sticky shed syndrome.
It has plagued audio users for years and unfortunately it is starting to raise it's ugly head in video tape too. Another problem is mold if tapes are not stored correctly. This is why everyone needs to get everything they treasure on video tape NOW as in today. Don't want for tomorrow or next week or next year. If you have valuable content that you want to preserve get it on DVD or Bluray disk media and to a hard drive. I have DVD disks that are well over 20 years old that play perfectly and CDR disks even older than that that still play.
If people were still buying DVD and BD players the manufactures would still be making them, but because people stopped buying many companies stopped making them.
Everyone is throwing their eggs in one basket. They are putting stuff on their computer, or external hard drives but all it takes is one drop and everything is gone. USB sticks don't last much beyond 7 years, and SSD is just as unreliable as the data must be refreshed and rewritten to different sectors or it can just vanish, so not good for long store storage where it is not powered up regularly. Cloud storage is also a red herring. What is to say that down the road the cloud provider is not sold to another company that revises their user agreement and then jacks up the monthly storage to eye watering levels. Once everyone has everything in the cloud, or changed theor policy to now own all your content and grant themself permission to use your photos for their own gain.
Everything you value needs to be backed up onto multiple formats. When I do digital archiving for my customers 9 out of 10 take their footage back on a USB stick or hard drive and a second copy on DVD or Bluray.
I have the same camera you working on. How do I transfer my recordings to a usb using this old camera?
Not USB. Firewire.
Very good video. I was tempted to buy a used one today but now I will nix'nay that idea'ay. (Cancel my used purchase idea)
In years past (2000 ish) I spent $3k on a used vx3 3 chipper and had a faulty audio costing an additional repair $300 so definately buying used can be an issue. (yes you purchased yours brand new).
I'd love to get one of the camcorders you recommend there as I'm not sure if my zv1 will be better and I don't have the patience or willpower to learn a dslr:)
Im waiting for the "supposed" new Canons coming out but ...at some point how long can a person wait
cheers
What do you want it for?
Video or stills. If the answer is video grab a used fdrax33 and be done. That is one of the best little cameras I own. Small, optical stabalization, 4k video 1080p60 video and it will shoot 20.6mp stills. I have one and shot hundreds of my RUclips videos with it. I use an ax53 now as it has a longer zoom lens 20x vs 10 so I can get closer close up shots without having to bring the camera in closer. The ax100 is also an even better choice but costs quite a bit more but has larger sensor so can shoot with a shallow depth of field. When traveling i usually take the little one just because the quality is fantastic and i am not carrying around a large camera but for photography trips I use my ax100 for both stills and video.
If I had been working on that camcorder, there would have been a left over screw. Seems that always happens! (or I LOSE one)
What's the difference between this model and the Sony HDR-FX1 E?
The "E" model is Europe. 625 line PAL in SD and 50i frame rate. Even in HD it is based on European frame rate. The video produced playa on PAL and multi system TV only. Plug it into an older tv that doesn't support PAL and it won't work. Fortunately all the new TV's support multi system video.
@@12voltvids I’m in Australia and one had turned up on Marketplace for $150, I’m tempted.
I was brought in to a hotel as an executive and they just wanted me to be basic employee. (I folded laundry and did the breakfast) They were shocked that I did not want to work with them that much. (same name type)
I had a nightmare with a prosumer Sony VX2000 3 chip that had random horrible hum in the audio. You could turn it on and get nothing and the next time a horrible hum. I sent it off twice to Sony only to have it returned with the same issue. I sent it off again and waited for a month or two only to be told that they can’t find any issue and that they were returning the camera to me even after sending them a tape recorded with the hum issue. It ended up with me getting very irritable with the support team and asking for their supervisor and by that time they had a new model so they sent me the new model with no issues. What a relief that was!!
You know why it was humming right? .......
Because it didn't know the words! 😁
@@12voltvids some of the words I said to it I wouldn’t want to repeat here 😄
I have probably said those same words and worse working on some things, or when dealing with idiots, like the goof that reports every video is post to every executive at Google and RUclips he can find trying to get my channel taken down.
@@12voltvids Why the hell would someone want to do that? It amazes me. You have a great channel man. Looking forward to future vids.
@@guitareveryone it's John Senchak and he is a troll that I banned. I banned his 20 different alt versions of his name too. He gets upset when I post. Says i an spamming him. He is the one that selected to be notified when j post new videos not me. The guy is a douchebag and that is putting it mildly.
I have learned something about these types of camera. Don't buy them. I got my little Aiptek flash based camera back in the day and it still works to this day. No moving parts, no tapes. I did have an issue with the power button and the multifunction wheel but I was able to fix it. Also the front strap mount broke but a red hot wire later fixed that. And the battery door clips broke from use but I put a hair tie on it.
Tape is something we can all do without today. Sorry I just pissed off all those that think tape is better, just like there are some that think vinyl is better and pay a fortune for old junky turntables.
@@12voltvids It's ok the only thing I have that's tape is audio cassettes and VHS tapes. I listen to MP3s and record on digital. I bought two preamps for my TT and they both don't work so I just stick with mp3s.
SD cards are not much better. You are recording to a file on a device that holds a filesystem. There are so many abstractions in the way that any one of them can fail and break the file, entirely, or half way, or the entire card itself. Give me flash media that does not act like a disc, and I will love it. Tape has problems because its old, but as a recording media it is much more resilient to "issues" than flash as tape is simply a dumb stream of bytes. As long as the tape does not chew up, and damage to the tape or video stream can be bypassed by simply letting it play.
Like HDV tape, flash based recorders use the transport stream format (unless they are my DSLR which crazily uses MOV), as that file format also has that resiliency. Errors in that file thus don't damage the rest of the file beyond that point, only the damaged portion is affected. Transport stream is also used in TV broadcasts for that reason, its great. However the medium that is used will affect the resiliency, flash is not anything like tape. All of its "improvements" are merely seen that way because they are just more convenient. But when that SD card just dies on you, which they do, the entire card dies. Everything goes with it. I'd rather use tape than hope that I have enough money for data recovery services, and they don't usually recover SD cards as they are not worth as much as recovering a HDD.
I have plenty of SD cards in many devices, so its not like I dont use them. I have a bunch of them in front of me, my DSLR, a cheap model, only uses one and I never let data sit on it more than a few hours. I just respect the fact that a medium, and recording format that is able to ignore errors, digital and physical ones, is superior to a format that is only liked because of convenience. A friend of mine has had a much more different experience with SD cards that he simply puts into the digital camera, where it happily stores the photos, then he phones me because one of the cards has died totally and the other card is working but half the pictures are a corrupted mess and a third are "gone" which I usually get back using recovery software.
What make were these cards? Well, the supposed king of flash: sandisk.
Oh year, one of my 64GB flash drives died on the shelf. 64GB gone, in a flash. Luckily knowing this failure is possible I never store data on flash, only transport it.
So, tape is old, superior and old and will jam up and become annoying. SD is convenient, but that comes at a cost. When my HDV camcorder needs replacing, what will I get... well the only smart thing is to get a 2 SD recorder. Have the camcorder record to 2 cards at once, that's what the pro's do in pro level DSLR's and camcorders, for the reasons I stated. Oh and no, never get HUGE insanely big SD cards. No 128GB cards, unless I'm doing 4K which is unlikely as I don't have a 4K TV so no point yet. Nope, small SD cards, different manufacturers, dual recording, swap frequently = less chance of losing your holiday video.
Oh and I always stress the SD card to rest it. I write to every sector several times, a proper test, I have killed weaker cards that way.
@@dlarge6502 SD cards can and do fail. I have had one fail. I was having problems recently on my newer camera with a Sandisk card, but it was more of a speed issue. Not fast enough. Didn't lose any files, just the camera ran out of buffer. I believe the old camera didn't have the issue as the camera had more memory internal and just buffered the video until the card caught up.
Tape however has so many issues I can't overlook. Drop outs for starters. Especially when dealing with a long GOP like HDV. A dropout results in losing 1/2 second of video.
I have had more issues with USB thumb drives. Controller chip dies and no more access. In fact I have only had 1SD card actually fail and that was because the contacts wore out from putting it in the camera so many times. I don't use SD cards for long term storage though. I shoot and then transfer right away to external removable hard drives. When I travel I haul my laptop with me to download daily.
I do have software I bought that has recovered damaged video files.
i just got a hold of one that im actually trying to sell! it seems like everything works
They were redecules expensive when new. Over 5k. Today you would be lucky to get 500.
got the same problem and c31 23. Guess is a dead end.
I have a HVR-V1u
Ok maybe a bad design, but that's a nice looking big brother camera 😀
It looks cool. You sure know you have it after hauling it around all day. It draws attention. When i have been filming in parks i have on more than one occassion been asked for my film permit. In certain parks when i was doing weddings the city wanted a film permit, because a wedding was considered a commercial shoot. I was more then happy to surprise the couple when the got the bill with the filming permit and receipt attached. I should only say it happened once. I had been working with the photographer and wedding party and i was pinched by an enforcement officer as we were breaking down and packing up. The couple didn't even see what was going on and the stills photographer and his assistant saw the bylaw guy approach me and he hightailed it the other way. Was issued a 500 ticket for filming in a city park without a permit. The guy had been watching us work for awhile and waited till we were done as to not cause a scene and got me while i was loading equipment in my truck. I showed it to the couple at the reception and they couldn't believe it but in the end they paid. I'm so glad that I don't shoot weddings anymore. Now had I been using a small camera it would not have drawn any attention because I could have blended in just like a guest. I was shooting with a betacam when this happened.
@@12voltvidsDo you need a permit to filn in public?
@@tacofortgens3471 why would i? If you are shooting a movie in a park for example with a crew yes, but shooting scenery or any other non commercial stuff no.
Really dumb design but the video quality is great.
my white roller fell out i put it back and still have those 3x:xx erros.
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Hope mine never does this! Love my unit that is in great shape like yours. What a stupid design though! Guess we can’t really be shocked though, as it was Sony who felt tape opening from the base of a camera so you have to remove it from the tripod was a great idea! What made it worse they did it on so many units for years. You would think they would of stop after one product 😂
I remember many JVC and canon that opened from the bottom. Canon started that crap.
alaso hdv from canon too
They all made HDV cameras for awhile. Some were 720p and others 1080i. I have a big JVC gydv500 that needs service. Should I fix that one? It's just a standard def, but an ENG type with 3ccd camera.
@@12voltvids My canon HDV does 1080p, only in the 25fps mode however which is what I film everything at anyway. I cant stand the soap opera effect. It has to record the progressive frame as two fields in the interlaced video, they line up to make the progressive frame with a reduction of half the frame rate.
@@dlarge6502 You sure about that?
HDV had 2 recording modes in the spec, 720P60 and 1080i60.
My camera can run in 3 modes. 24P frame 3:2 pull down to 60i, 30P encoded as 60i and 60i.
Both the slow frame rates drive me crazy especially the 24 frame simulated mode.
My 4K camera has true 24P and 30P. The 24 frame mode is totally useless. Yes I know it gives the cinematic effect, but I hate it. I don't go to movies because I just can't stand slow frame rates. Needless to say I haven't watched movies in years.
That Sony HDR FX1 came my way after the owner had dropped it over the side of a speedboat on a corporate shoot. It was the 1st time he used it & it floated just long enough for him to pick it up. It was ruined & when i opened it the seawater had destroyed almost every copper piece of track or ic pin. I wrote a report as to why the unit was not worth repairing, especially the lens which was still full of water! 8 weeks later the owners insurance company came to me demanding why i had advised he make a claim. Their assessor became an asshat accusing me of all the damage! Then they shipped the camera to an independent ultrasonics lab that cleaned stuff where they tanked it & returned it. Most chips were gone from PCBs and the optical elements had changed color. The insurance company demanded that now it was clean i could make it work or they'd sue me.... A letter from my solicitor saved my butt although the whole nightmare had me out of pocket almost $1000 & no path for any compensation. I no longer touch any pro equipment like this that's had swimming lessons...
I would tell them to take a long walk on a short pier.
same that i have in PAL.. its not easy to open..bad design
HC3E; engineering marvel, until the mode wheel contacts stop working. I can repair that cheaply.
You mean the power switch?
@@12voltvids No, the mode wheel in the mechanism; usual symptom is the carriage will not close and latch, with an error code.
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Sony are not THAT dumb. You can force the eject/closure of the mechanism from the access panel at the base. Here's an HVR-Z1E, but the HDR-FX1 is just the same.
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Well when you have the service manual handy then you know where to apply power. I don't have the manual for this model, and going in, did not expect the side cover to be trapped by the mechanism. Good information for future work on this one if it ever needs it again. Remember I got this one 2 years after I left the business, so no access to manuals or service data.
@@12voltvids You did have to work it all out for yourself (or spend $25 for a service manual), in the old days. Now you can get them all online, for free.
@@dwilliamson8539 Manuals were never 25.00 I paid about 130 for the CCDVX3 I used to have and never opened the manual. I got rid of the camera but still have the manual. Online manuals are a joke. I can't work off a small screen. I need the full manual that I can lay out on the bench and trace electrons. Going from page to page is a joke, and even printing and sticking pages together is the shits. Scans are never good enough to read anything.
HaHa, you apologize about making too many camcorder videos. I watch any and all of your vids because it's like watching a brain surgeon work on cyborgs. You need to upload your brain to the internet for posterity.
This is not professional camera, Sony hdr-fx1 is handycam... but Sony hvr z1 its a pro version.
Same camera except for XLR inputs. Just a different handle. Identical electronics.
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Why stupid?
Video ftom this cam need to upscale in 4K before upload in RUclips, - that's a good way to preserve sharp and deep of black, contrast. Yeah, it's not rational, but the result is awesome!
Why not just upload in native 1080p. Deinterlaced to 60p and it looks awesome.
Never buy JVC Camcorders it sucks.
Everything JVC has ever made was junk. Junk very cheap. Or junky video company. Take your pick. I have a gydv500 with only about 200 hours on it and it's toast.