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grinner
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Oct 4, 2009, 12:29 PM

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Do you get sentamental about your cameras or any other gear?
I am hell on cameras and have succesfully burried an Avid Symphony in my day. That said, I still have my first camera, a Quazar VHS camera from 1984. I still have it's replacement too... a lil Sony 8mm handicam. And I've repaired and replaced parts on my current FX-1 far beyond it's current dollar value because I feel it's a part of me. We've bonded, so to speak. lol
Are any of you the same way with any pieve of video equipment?

;)
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Timothy Harry
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Oct 6, 2009, 4:50 PM

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Do you get sentamental about your cameras or any other gear?
I am hell on cameras and have succesfully burried an Avid Symphony in my day. That said, I still have my first camera, a Quazar VHS camera from 1984. I still have it's replacement too... a lil Sony 8mm handicam. And I've repaired and replaced parts on my current FX-1 far beyond it's current dollar value because I feel it's a part of me. We've bonded, so to speak. lol
Are any of you the same way with any pieve of video equipment?
still got my one of the first off the line XL1s's which was my first camera in college. Actually used it in the little brothers wedding back in august. I had to run it on AC power, but it did the trick. I will probably keep my HVX-200's in the same way. You never know when you can find a use for something.

Tim Harry

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grinner
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Oct 17, 2009, 9:15 AM

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My old quazar's tube has been burned and reburned so many times, it offers a very cool smear when panning now. It's not soemthing I can recreate in post, exactly. To this day, I'll sometimes plug it in just for that ghostly effect, especially when shooting paranormal stuff.

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Bob A
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Nov 29, 2009, 7:50 PM

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Yup. A Minolta VHS in 1984 or 5 started it all. Still got it, somewhere. Tried it a couple years ago and no-joy. Had a slew of VHS, S-VHS, 8mm and Hi8 along the way. (most in the basement, somewhare) The Canon UCS-3 Hi8 took a swim doing a whitewater rafting video. Gladly dumped the Pana AG-455 as one of the worst cams every perpetrated on the public. Replaced that with a Pana SuperCam that wasn't too bad. Had 7 VX1000s along the way, one also took a swim. Still have one, not-working-too-good, of those. Heads gone but still works good as a security cam video source. Currently 2 VX2000s, PD170, 2 DSR 200s, 2 DSR 250s, DSR 300, JVC GY DV 300, 2 FX1s, FX7, HV30 and a few JVC MiniDVs for tape rewinding. A couple of D-8 cams along the way used for firewire backups of the main cam. Now Decks is another story, just under 100 kicking around. 5 full size DV, about 75 VHS dub decks - only 10 still on the rack, gotta make a dump run soon! AG 1960s 1970s, 1980s and a AG-W1 standards changing deck. 25 DVD stand alone recorders. 6 DVD dup towers.
Sentimental??? oops....