14 Feb
2010
14 Feb
'10
6:20 p.m.
At 12:45 PM 2/14/2010, Randy Dawson wrote:
I had a note from a pro video repair shop, saying that
to get a $15,000 pro video camera back in operation would require the replacement of all
the tant caps, as they were all destined to fail, and yet another trip to the shop.
For me, it was a late 80s Sony consumer camera that failed slowly in the mid 90s...
I recorded the first few years of my kids' lives with it. I could immediately rewind
and see that it was still recording, but recordings from a year before
were unplayable. Something about the fading caps would smell like tuna fish.
I'm not sure how I'll ever be able to recover those recordings. Anyone have an
8mm helical low-level digitizer with software recovery of drifting video tracks yet?
- John