HVX200 acting up

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idwxman

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I have a six month old 200. I use a 32gb card and use the camera largely to shoot interval recording of the sky. Its been a fantastic camera thus far.

Friday, 6/6/08, I was unable to offload the P2 card to my external firewire HDD. So I just ejected the card and copied the contents over via a PCMCIA reader I have installed in my PC. Card emptied, problem solved, I can shoot again.

Next day, I go to review some shots just recorded via toggling the Camera MCR setting it into review mode... No go. Pop out the battery, restart... Nothing I cannot get the camera to review the files.

Then I try going into the menu button to change 720/30 to 720/30N and that whole cluster of buttons atop the camera is non-responsive. Nothing works. I can shoot with the last used setting but I cannot get in to tweak anything. The scene files (f1 to f6) work fine but the menu option is gone.

So I try tape mode... Turn off the camera switch to tape, bring it back up hit the record button and the message "External 1394 disconnect" appears. WTF?!

I fear a major failure has occurred.

Anyone else with a similar experience?

--Scott
 
We have seen some cameras in our repair center with the same issue. The problems is with a couple of ribbons and a new rubber button pad.

Let me know if you need us to take a glance at it.

Best regards,

Andrew Hoffman
Vice President
Specialized Communications Corp.
20940 Twin Springs Dr.
Smithsburg, MD 21783-1510 USA
800-359-1858 (US)
301-790-0103
Fax: 301-790-0173
andrewh@spec-comm.com
www.spec-comm.com
 
Spec-Comm said:
We have seen some cameras in our repair center with the same issue. The problems is with a couple of ribbons and a new rubber button pad.

Let me know if you need us to take a glance at it.

Best regards,

Andrew Hoffman
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Andrew,

Could you tell us if some of those were at least new HVX200A's sold by Specialized Communications Corp.?

I am right on track to order from you my upgrade next week and this is certainly something I would not be so happy to happen anytime on that new 200A since I do not live in the US...

Thank you,
Henry Epstein
 
This has been fixed on the 200A. It's has only happened so far on the 200's.

Best regards,

Andrew Hoffman
 
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