Vampiresoup
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How many hours can I expect to get out of my DVX. Buying a camera with a 150 hours on it, is that crazy?
How long will a DVX 100a last?
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HorseFilms
Look ma no hands
...and some reports say that it could last as long as 3000+ hours, if used in conditions that are kind to the camera.
pookie_old
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This stuff just hurts........
Andrew Brinkhaus
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I hate thinking about the end of my DVX...I only have 34 hours on mine but it still kills me thinking of the day it will die....
pookie_old
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It hurts more now........
pookie_old
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I'm going to start crying now.......
Trent_Lucid
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I am with pookie... that is to sad to think about
pookie_old
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No, thats not why I'm cryin'......
Trent_Lucid
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then why pookie?
pookie_old
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If you consider the heads life to be 3000 hours (a conservative number assuming basic care of the camera) you can shoot 3 hours a day, every day of the year, for just under three years before you're likely to encounter issues.
Three years, at 3 hours a day, every day....basically production use.
Most (95%+) of the users here are "hobby" shooters for lack of a better term. Given that, it's VERY unlikely anyone here is going to have head failure due to usage, and that INCLUDES using the DVX as a deck.
The discussions of gloom and doom are amusing to say the least.
The original question was valid, he simply wanted to know if 150 hours was much to worry about.
The rest of the thread is simply embarassing, and implies that the DVX is a delicate, fragile piece of electronics, that MUST be used sparingly.
Sad.
Three years, at 3 hours a day, every day....basically production use.
Most (95%+) of the users here are "hobby" shooters for lack of a better term. Given that, it's VERY unlikely anyone here is going to have head failure due to usage, and that INCLUDES using the DVX as a deck.
The discussions of gloom and doom are amusing to say the least.
The original question was valid, he simply wanted to know if 150 hours was much to worry about.
The rest of the thread is simply embarassing, and implies that the DVX is a delicate, fragile piece of electronics, that MUST be used sparingly.
Sad.
Spec-Comm
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The DVX is definitely not fragile. We're a repair facility so we see some messed up gear. We got one in not to long ago and it looked like it was attached to the side of a motorcycle, so it had motor oil all over it, and it was obviously ran over. Same goes with a DVX that we got that was dropped off the top of a hotel. We also had one that was backed over with a car. All of them still worked.
Great camera's.
Andrew Hoffman
Specialized Communications Corp.
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Smithsburg, MD 21783-1510
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Great camera's.
Andrew Hoffman
Specialized Communications Corp.
20940 Twin Springs Dr.
Smithsburg, MD 21783-1510
800-359-1858
Fax: 301-790-0173
andrewh@spec-comm.com
www.spec-comm.com
pookie_old
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Spec-Comm said:
But what about the heads, what about the heads.....????????
LOL
Rush
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Worst I saw were two:
1- Horror flick, guy supposed to swing a shovel at the camera and miss it by a foot, for effect, hits it smack in the kisser :shocked: , sends it flying 20 feet and it lands in wet grass, still rolling footage. Needed some repair, but still in business
2- Action flick, guy gets shot, blood squib filled with Karo syrup explodes and showers the cameraman and camera. Camera is fully loaded with hardened Karo to the gills. $300 cleaning, back in business. :thumbsup:
Most important thing with DVX is to protect it from sand and grit, that gets into the zoom and focus rings easily.
1- Horror flick, guy supposed to swing a shovel at the camera and miss it by a foot, for effect, hits it smack in the kisser :shocked: , sends it flying 20 feet and it lands in wet grass, still rolling footage. Needed some repair, but still in business
2- Action flick, guy gets shot, blood squib filled with Karo syrup explodes and showers the cameraman and camera. Camera is fully loaded with hardened Karo to the gills. $300 cleaning, back in business. :thumbsup:
Most important thing with DVX is to protect it from sand and grit, that gets into the zoom and focus rings easily.
Different gear, but I was reading a funny article about how some people are now choosing plasma screen product over LCD again because of the purported 60,000 hour lifetime in LCD.
People hear hours and panic - turn it into a real-world formula like the one pookie figured and the concerns melt away.
60,000 hours translates into 6.8 years of constant 24-hour a day viewing, 20+ years at 8-hours a day and so on.
My grandmother excepted, I don't know anyone who held onto a television for more than 20 years. Granted, her 27" Magnavox faux-walnut console set was pretty pimpy.
Your DVX100a will be just like that in another few years, long before you get to the end of its head life. You'll know you're close when it takes three full minutes to power-up and display an image, sprouts false drawers with brass pulls that don't open and the perforated melamine on the back starts to decompose and sag a little.
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People hear hours and panic - turn it into a real-world formula like the one pookie figured and the concerns melt away.
60,000 hours translates into 6.8 years of constant 24-hour a day viewing, 20+ years at 8-hours a day and so on.
My grandmother excepted, I don't know anyone who held onto a television for more than 20 years. Granted, her 27" Magnavox faux-walnut console set was pretty pimpy.
Your DVX100a will be just like that in another few years, long before you get to the end of its head life. You'll know you're close when it takes three full minutes to power-up and display an image, sprouts false drawers with brass pulls that don't open and the perforated melamine on the back starts to decompose and sag a little.
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pookie_old
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The average person is expected to fail at 615000 hours.