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BIG trouble with my XL1s

jenerik
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Jul 28, 2004, 5:40 PM

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Ok. Here's the problem I'me having with my XL1s.

After I shoot some footage and watch it in the playback, the video is all garbled and has a lot of large green blocks. You can sort of make out the footage behind it, but its just a total mess. This happened one time before, but the problem went away and it started working fine again. For the most part, in the viewfinder it looks fine, but sometimes it gets full of with little spots and horizontal lines. I think the issues are related.

The camera is just over a year old and I have have very few hours on it.

Please help me if you can!

Thanks,
Erik

Bob Hudson
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Jul 28, 2004, 6:23 PM

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Re: [jenerik] BIG trouble with my XL1s [In reply to]	Can't Post

This sounds like it could be dirty tape heads. Try running a head cleaning tape through it.

jenerik
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Jul 28, 2004, 7:40 PM

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Re: [Bob Hudson] BIG trouble with my XL1s [In reply to]	Can't Post

I'll give that a try, but I'm not sure what effect it will have on the viewfinder. The problems with the viewfinder occur even when not recording.

jenerik
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Aug 15, 2004, 12:32 PM

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Re: [jenerik] BIG trouble with my XL1s [In reply to]	Can't Post

I just wanted to give everyone a little update about my XL1s. I was in Southern California last week so I drove in to Irvine and dropped it off. Come to find out it was the Central Processing Board that need to be replaced. OUCH! They fixed it in like 2 days. Excellent customer service.

Erik