Dvx woes.

scharky

scharky

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Well after waiting 7 months to save my money, I finally purchased my dvx100a today. I was so excited, at first, but I do have some problems. The first thing I noticed right when I took it out of the box was that it made this clunking noise when I violently shook it back and forth. This made me feel rather uneasy, however the camera did turn on, so I guess it wasn't all that bad. I then fliped the switch over to F6 and started spinning crazily around the room. When I played back the footage it was so stuttery that I thought I was watching a slide show, what gives? I then thought I would do a low light test. I turned off all the lights, shut the curtains and started filming my cat. To my utter surprise, even with the gain turned all the way up, all I could see were my precious fluffys green glowing eyes and lots of little ants or flies, dancing around the screen. I took looked away from the viewfinder but I didn't see any little flies (I really thought my house was being infested with the 7th plague). But when I looked through the viewfinder again, there they were buzzing around and attacking my little fluffy again. This made me really scared so I took fluffy and locked her in the closet. I then tried to do some zooming, but for some reason the zoom ring was really tight. So I moved it back and forth, I'd say about 300 times, really fast until it made a clicking sound and then it became really loose. It was now really easy to turn, but would for some reason only work 1 out of every 10-15 times I would try it. I think I must have a disfunctional camera. Nothing seems to be working right. But get this. I called B&H photo, where I got the camera, and told them I got a disfunct camera. They said no problem, just pack up everything back in the box and ship it back. I told them that I had already thrown away the box (I had opend the camera over 2hrs ago, sheesh) and I had already shredded and thrown away all the paperwork that came with the camera (I didn't want anyone to get my personal information from the warranty card). They told me there was nothing more that they could do, So I called the salesman an Ugly booger face and hung up the phone. So here is my question. What should I do now. Anybody want to by a broken dvx100a, I guess I could part with it for about $4200.
 
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Is this a joke? If it is I say cudos. I laughed pretty hard about you sticking the cat in the closet.
 
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I am laughing out loud right now until I got this sinking feeling:

You are not serious are you? Please tell me you're not serious. Pleeeasseee ?
 
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..i tried mounting mine to my tripod, and when i tightend the mount screw with a pipe wrench, the mount in the dvx broke, and then i tried to unscrew the anamorphic lense i put on , and when i tightened that with a pipe wrench it broke too. then i tried to record some footage in the middle of the street at night, and when i tried to white balance, NOT ALL THE LIGHTS EVERYWHERE WERE WHITE!! so i dont think the white balance works.. i tried to set the detail level to +8 cause i though it might give me a sharper picture, but it only ruined the shoot even more. detail schmeetail.. then i tried to clean the lense with a sharp rock , cause i acidenttally got a fuzz on it,so i was going to scrape it off with the rock and some draino. but that made the lense chip and turn weird colors..so i decided to try a whole bunch of different tapes in the cam to see which one had the best quality to take away the strange color, and my heads got clogged, so i ran the cleaning tape for 4 hours to be sure it was clean, but now it dosent record anymore, so i ran a s-video cable to my computer, but it dosent fit in my mouse port, so my friend hooked it up by a firewire cable, and i got it to work, but it only captured 60i stuff an i had it in the 24pa mode, so i tried to clean the heads some more, and then i captured again and it was still 60i so i tried to put the letterbox feature on and recapture, and then set the aspect ratio to 16:9 so that the footage would be 16:9 and film like, and i set the project to 24p and exported a 24p file , so now its just like film.. .. yesssss!!! MAN i love this camera!!
 
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Why does everyone think this is a joke? I don't get what you'all think is so funny. I locked fluffy up in the closet because I didn't want those pesky flies to get her, although I still can't find any sign of them.
 
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Scharky,

About all those bugs you see trying to get your cat. My doctorate is in psychology, and I think I can help you . . .


(Actually, you had me for awhile until I got about halfway through, then I laughed out loud and my wife, who is in bed reading next to me wanted to know what I was reading online!)
 
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Actually Here is the true story. I ordered my dvx100a from bh photo yesterday, and got overnight delivery. Today was the first day of classes again, but I only had one 1hr class, so I decided to spend the day at home, waiting for my package to arrive. It was scheduled for 10am, but you know how that goes. As you might have been able to tell, I was rather board today, hence the strange topic. I have been doing my homework on this camera for about 7 months, working part time and going to school full time. Over that period of time, I have seen more and more people complaining about those issues that I mentioned, so in my boardom, I let my creative juices flow. I don't even have a cat. I finally got my dvx100a tonight at about 5pm, that was a long day of waiting. But seriously, those flies are really scary.
 
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right on brother.. glad to here your rolling :)
 
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[quote author=iamloser link=board=nws;num=1073414060;start=0#3 date=01/06/04 at 11:12:32]then i tried to clean the lense with a sharp rock , [/quote]

;D

Okay, that line, right there, is proof positive that IAL is not a loser!
 
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:D :D :D :D, He he i nearly had a heart attack! these double Stitching cant hold my pants together any longer !
 
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

"so i ran the cleaning tape for 4 hours to be sure it was clean"

Hi,do you think this method of head cleaning would work for a PAL DVX100?

Guys,you are great!.
Johnnie
 
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Instead of wasting everyones time you should have searched for the topic "polishing your lense" which would answered your question about proper cleaning.

Here what I know. Oddly, a month ago I entered that same querry and was informed that petroleum jelly or a similar lubricant would releave any such problem (I don't know why it was neccessary to be naked but I tried it anyway). Coensidently, a search for "cleaning your head" gave me the same response (though I was forced to look at pornographic pictures while doing so).

Best of luck.

PS...I as everyone has gotten a great laugh from post. PLease let us know about your problems in FCP, it's a nice break.
 
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your story sounds made up , what person throws the box away the same day u buy an expensive item!
 
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my house is really small, so my wife made me throw it away. I don't get it, what part of my "story" do you think is made up?
 
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[quote author=richard link=board=nws;num=1073414060;start=0#17 date=01/11/04 at 18:13:21]your story sounds made up , what person throws the box away the same day u buy an expensive item![/quote]

one with a great sense of humor...Rock on Sharky!
 
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