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Mike_Donis

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My DVX100 had 202 hours on the head counter. Having never experienced any dropouts, I felt no reason to get it professionally cleaned. Eventually (at the 202 hour mark) I started experiencing *considerable* dropouts, and so I decided it was time.

When I got the camera back from Panasonic, I did a quick test, and all was well - no dropouts whatsoever. A colleague of mine decided to rent out my camera for a few days to take on a shoot. After the few days, I got the camera back and decided to check how much use he put on it.

Then to my surprise, the head counter was reading three hours of use. T H R E E.

A fantastic deal on my end, effectively making my camera new again, if I decide to sell it for any reason - but is this normal? It of course is my camera, same serial number. But I thought that the head counter wasn't able to reset - or at least Panasonic wouldn't want to reset it. Like the mileage on a car, no?

I re-state: is this normal? Has anybody else had this happen to them?
 
You lucky, lucky man. Where did you send it? I'll put mine in the mail today!

Head replacement is the only thing that might explain it. Either that or little magic ferries go into your camera every night and turn back the hours.

Congrats! :thumbup:
 
Terry - I'm cathing up to you, buddy. You're within 70 posts. Let's see who can make it to 2,000 first. :) Wait, it's 4:30am here. Bedtime. This was a poorly conceived invitation for a challenge. By the time I wake up you'll be the winner. Let's start the race tomorrow, when it's your bedtime. Deal?
 
You have to be careful, some unscrupulous used camera dealers will set a camera on rewind to roll back the hour counter. I did that with a '64 Dodge once... I feel real bad about it.
 
I did that once, but all my footage ended up backwards. I decided to market it as a Memento ripoff.
 
PK Gillock said:
Terry - I'm cathing up to you, buddy. You're within 70 posts. Let's see who can make it to 2,000 first. :) Wait, it's 4:30am here. Bedtime. This was a poorly conceived invitation for a challenge. By the time I wake up you'll be the winner. Let's start the race tomorrow, when it's your bedtime. Deal?
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I wouldn't doubt (at all) that you'll get to 2000 before me. I think I hit 1700 several months ago, but I've really slowed down since... although, it may not appear that way. :)

I think Brian Wells made his first post when I had 1500... now look at him. He's the new TC. ;)

Along the way, many young guns litter the dust-strewn streets of DVXuser. Does anyone remember Kyle Sherman? Actually, I still read the occasional rare post by him.
 
I just finnished driving my car around the block backwards for 20 hours at speed.....Damn it's new again!!!


Hey Mike...Maybe they were cleaning a new cam and yours that day and you got the wrong one back?
 
That's what I thought must have happened at first, but the serial number is the same! As far as I'm concerned, it is my camera - I think it really is just a case of luck!
 
Mino said:
I just finnished driving my car around the block backwards for 20 hours at speed.....Damn it's new again!!!


Hey Mike...Maybe they were cleaning a new cam and yours that day and you got the wrong one back?
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"Wrong" one may be relative....

I would check the serial number, and stay away from Mino's block.
 
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