Recent content by RandB

Pretty much a bonehead question, but bear with me on this... I understand the concept of shutter speed from my days of fiddling around as an amateur shutterbug with my old 35mm still image cameras. The shutter opens and closes in the blink of an eye (1/60th of a second, 1/100th of a second...

I'm a fairly new DVX100a user. Still learning. After filling up one tape, I was getting these awful horizontal bars on playback. Turned out it was nothing but dirty heads, which was easily resolved with a head-cleaning cassette. The guy at the store who sold me the head cleaning cassette told...

Still learning about my new DVX100a. When I turn it on and don't do anything with it for a few minutes, it goes into "sleep" mode, or "stand by." The LCD screen goes dark. I guess that's what it's supposed to do. But I have a few questions... 1. How do I "wake up" the camera from this "sleep"...

Sorry for the dumb question. I just got my DVX100a a few months ago, and only recently started giving it a good workout. It's quite a jump up from the simply consumer Sony Handycam I was using before. I'm feeling a little like my dad must've felt when he was struggling with how to program his...