SOS to Counter Protest Student Pro-Tax Increase Event

Twoller · #1 03-14-2011, 09:58 PM

Nice work on a good idea Davi.

Just because the camera is shorted out doesn't mean the media is bad. If it's a tape, you just need a second machine to play it back. If it's an SD card, then again, just another machine should be able to read it. And you can get SD readers for computers as well. Ask around.

Ayatollahgondola · #2 03-14-2011, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Twoller

Nice work on a good idea Davi.

Just because the camera is shorted out doesn't mean the media is bad. If it's a tape, you just need a second machine to play it back. If it's an SD card, then again, just another machine should be able to read it. And you can get SD readers for computers as well. Ask around.

No; there was only two little files on the damn thing after a 20 minute video. It said it was recording, but it wasn't.

The other guy got some video, but he doesn't know hot to extract and upload. He sent me some files, but they appear to only be the sound files
I'll work on it tomorrow.

Twoller · #3 03-15-2011, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Ayatollahgondola

No; there was only two little files on the damn thing after a 20 minute video. It said it was recording, but it wasn't.

The other guy got some video, but he doesn't know hot to extract and upload. He sent me some files, but they appear to only be the sound files
I'll work on it tomorrow.

What is the model and make of this camera? You say there were just two little files? How big are they? Have you been unable to record anything else?

Ayatollahgondola · #4 03-15-2011, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Twoller

What is the model and make of this camera? You say there were just two little files? How big are they? Have you been unable to record anything else?

The camera is gone. It won't even fire up now. The files were on the chip, and they are not very big, and I downloaded them by sticking the chip in the computer.
It's a sony dcr-hc 32

Twoller · #5 03-15-2011, 04:35 PM

If you know that it got real wet, you might give it a week or so to dry out. The water gets caught in odd places and is hard to dry out and effects the circuitry. Is there really no evidence of any kind of functioning at all? Does it act like it is powering up? Do you get a screen display?

If you want to give up on it, don't throw it out, I'd be happy to take it off your hands and see if I can do something with it.

Ayatollahgondola · #6 03-26-2011, 07:40 AM

The guy who was with me at this event still has the video shot from his camera, and we're hoping we can meet up sunday so I can borrow the chip. I sure hate it when we have an event and the documentatiion from it is delayed.

Twoller · #7 03-26-2011, 07:47 AM

What's the latest on the state of your own video camera? Has drying out changed its performance any?