#Minidv

[fornaxvoid]

47°03'48.2"N 8°19'44.6"E

[claytoys]

Driver Driver

Original Music by Clay Toys(me)

Filmed on MiniDV (Canon GL2)

[zibaldone-di-pensieri]

Man how I miss all of these...

[mycryptwishlist]

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[foreign-lawns]

Flowers, miniDV stills, April 2025

Malcolm Flanigan

[aplanningforburial]

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[flashfuckingflesh]

Isolated Between Mountains, EVIL Rises Out of the Refuge. "Lycan Colony" reviewed! (Visual Vengeance / Blu-ray)

“Lycan Colony” available on Blui-ray Collector’s Edition! A big city surgeon on the mend of an alcohol problem and two siblings searching for their father who disappeared in the mountains hunting a mysterious big game find themselves in a small town inhabited by an ancient werewolf tribe.  Mostly seeking a peaceful way of life, many of the werewolves have tamed their inner beast to live normally…

[chill-wavetabled]

filmadora japonesa de fabrica💎

Sony Handycam DCR-HC90 (JPN Ver.)

[claytoys]

Weekend In November - A MiniDV Short

(Canon GL2)

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Some shots with the CanonGL2 I recently bought. It’s a really fun camera and I recommend anyone mess around with these old camcorders. Hope you enjoy

[thesearenotphotographs]

Le Tigre at Warsaw in 2002

View the video on my website here.

Le Tigre recently announced they are reuniting and ending their tour with three shows in Brooklyn at Brooklyn Steel in Williamsburg, and it reminded me of the time when I saw the band perform for the first time over twenty years ago.

The concert on Friday, January 25, 2002 also took place in northern Brooklyn, but it was in Greenpoint at Warsaw. Since I was in college at the time, I borrowed a miniDV camera from school (thanks, Fordham University!) and shot some of their performance with it. I recently located the tapes I had in my old bedroom in my mother’s house, so I bought a miniDV camera from eBay, plus multiple adapters* in order to digitize nearly 20 minutes of their set in the above video.

The footage was taken on Friday, January 25, 2002 from the audience and can be shaky at times due to people dancing but I’m excited to finally put this online. For more Le Tigre, you can check out some images I have of their show at Irving Plaza the following year in 2003.

This is an understatement, but I’m very much looking forward to seeing Le Tigre live again this summer for their first tour in nearly twenty years.

Update: Photos from their Brooklyn Steel run are now available here.

*it was three different adapters so I could connect a FireWire cable to a Thunderbolt 4 port on my laptop.

[talentos]

Un Viaje a Través del Tiempo: La Evolución del Vídeo desde VHS hasta 8K mi experiencia

Un Viaje a Través del Tiempo: La Evolución del Vídeo desde VHS hasta 8K mi experiencia #AR #XR #ER #VirtualReality #virtualstudios #marketing #advertising #videoservices #youcreate #ai #aiart #ia #cinematography #streaming #broadcast #filmmaking #technolo

[mustachewashitape]

Wild seeing an ad for my actual recording rig on one of these accounts. Radical.

Sound & Vision - September 2000 JVC Mini DV/S-VHS VCR

[sibyl-of-space]

Troubleshooting & repair of a DIFFERENT old camcorder - audio & power issues - part 1

If there is one thing about me it is that I love old camcorders.

Device: JVC GR-250U MiniDV Camcorder

Symptoms: Issues charging, "Unit in Safeguard Mode" warning, unable to rewind, audio playback cuts in & out on inner speakers/AV out (FireWire transfer fine)

Service Manual: https://elektrotanya.com/jvc_gr_d250.rar/download.html#dl

TL;DR: Power stuff mostly handled, audio stuff not handled, I hate soldering tiny micro components

Well this camcorder actually started borking it about 2 years ago and I only now could be bothered to open it up and try and figure out what's up. First things first, I focused on the power issues, because I realized there's a chance the audio issue is a result of the power issues. Power issues do all sorts of stuff. You never know.

Now that I have a multimeter the first steps I took were:

Confirmed A/C adapter is outputting the voltage it's supposed to (confirmed)

Opened it up - this was a nightmare, I might make a teardown video at some point to walk people through it because it was SO annoying even WITH the schematics PDF

Tried to confirm voltages on various parts of the board (this was difficult because the circuits are really complicated and the schematic diagrams are A Lot, but it looked to me like for the most part everything was getting the expected voltages when powered on)

At this point I kinda got stuck so I did the tried and true method of "watch some videos of people who know what the fuck they're doing troubleshooting a similar piece of technology" and found this -

First off, I am jealous about how much easier that camcorder is to tear down than mine was, but anyway. In this case, the issue was a blown fuse. I realized I hadn't even thought to check or look for fuses on my camcorder, so I did that.

And sure enough: the first fuse I saw in big yellow letters labeled on the circuit board, F6001, when I tested across it there was no continuity. Looking at the schematics sheet this fuse is like the first point of failure right off the main power before it goes to just about every other part of the device, including and especially the battery, so that would explain most of the issues I've had with powering it. It also explains why the software stuff worked fine but it would fail when it had to do something mechanically taxing like rewinding a tape - bigger power draw, I imagine.

ANYWAY, just like the guy in the video, I decided I should just try to jumper across it to make it work. I was very idealistic at this time and thought if it worked I could order a replacement fuse and then properly install that.

I had not yet learned how much of a fucking nightmare soldering this stupid thing was going to be.

After 3 hours of my life that I will never get back, I have the ugliest solder job known to man, and have melted several adjacent components, but luckily not damaged them:

Perhaps you don't have a good sense for just how infuriatingly tiny this stupid thing is. Here is my thumb for scale.

I know the picture is blurry as hell. My phone didn't want to zoom in this much because of how freaking tiny this stupid shit is. Anyway. It's fine. I did it. Somehow. Eventually. Very, very eventually.

Verifying the jump was also a pain because there are absolutely no obvious connection points immediately after the fuse on this side of the board, and I cannot emphasize enough how annoying it is to take this circuit board out and access the backside, but whatever, it's fine, I found a capacitor on the backside that worked as a point to test the connection and was able to verify on like my 3rd fucking attempt that I actually soldered across the dumb thing.

I am absolutely not replacing this with another fuse. If it gets overloaded and explodes at some point that's just the will of the gods.

ANYWAY, once that was done I put it mostly back together to test it out. And I am actually pleased to report the power issues are much better. If it's plugged into the A/C directly there are no issues, and even on battery power it seems to charge more, hold a charge better, and give me the "UNIT IN SAFEGUARD MODE" error way less frequently. I have still gotten the error, but I wonder if that will go away if I get a new battery or just do a full battery charge + drain to 0 cycle a couple times. It's much more usable now which is good.

Unfortunately this did not solve the audio issue. I am going to have to learn a lot more about reading schematic sheets to figure out the audio issue. One hint I have is that looking at the outputs from the audio chip, the outputs for the speaker and the A/V out ARE COMPLETELY SEPARATE PINS AND CIRCUITS. Which means since I am getting the same symptom on both, the issue lies somewhere between reading from the tape and getting to that audio chip, in all likelihood.

I will further troubleshoot the audio issue another day. For today I have had enough with this stupid tiny circuit board and its dumb small components.

[tapestodigitalah]

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[chill-wavetabled]

homemade miniDV dev📹

[tapestodigitalaus]

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About us:

We have a passion for breathing new life into old memories. If you're searching for a company that treats your VHS tapes with the care they deserve and converts them to USB, you've come to the right place!

At Tapes to Digital in Taringa, we are committed to providing outstanding media digitization services tailored to the needs of our community in Taringa and the surrounding areas. This page offers a detailed overview of all the services we provide, along with specific instructions and information unique to our Taringa location. Whether you’re looking to digitize treasured family videos, preserve vintage camcorder footage, or seek expert advice on maintaining broadcast-quality archives, everything you need is right here.