My AF-101 needs already to be serviced

... once upon a time a wise man told me: never buy a "year 0" of the brand new model of the car. It usually has bugs. Never buy a brand new model of digital camera. It usually has bugs (I learned the hard way with Leica M8) . I think the same rules applies to video cameras. I am so sorry for all of you guys who have problems (already) with your new toy/tool, but this time I am listening to wise man and letting other people be "beta testers" for the big brother...
 
Tata Steva said:
... once upon a time a wise man told me: never buy a "year 0" of the brand new model of the car. It usually has bugs. Never buy a brand new model of digital camera. It usually has bugs (I learned the hard way with Leica M8) . I think the same rules applies to video cameras. I am so sorry for all of you guys who have problems (already) with your new toy/tool, but this time I am listening to wise man and letting other people be "beta testers" for the big brother...
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Wise indeed. Which is why (a) you should hold off on buying any hardware until you absolutely need it, and (b) always consider buying either late in the cycle, or at the end of the previous iteration, never brand new and not tested. That's how I do it with all my Apple gear. F.ex. I waited to buy the Oct. 2009 released 27" iMac, and only bought it in Feb. 2010, after the first bugs were worked out. I'm shooting my feature in Sept 2011, and only then will I look at buying the af100, not before.
 
Tata Steva said:
... once upon a time a wise man told me: never buy a "year 0" of the brand new model of the car. It usually has bugs. Never buy a brand new model of digital camera. It usually has bugs (I learned the hard way with Leica M8) . I think the same rules applies to video cameras. I am so sorry for all of you guys who have problems (already) with your new toy/tool, but this time I am listening to wise man and letting other people be "beta testers" for the big brother...
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I've been buying cameras for well over thirty years and I've yet to have one that didn't earn it's keep from day one.

Thanks for your interest in our problems, I'm sure we will all accord it the value it deserves and eagerly await your next revelation.

Best regards,

Leo
 
Tata Steva said:
... once upon a time a wise man told me: never buy a "year 0" of the brand new model of the car. It usually has bugs. Never buy a brand new model of digital camera. It usually has bugs (I learned the hard way with Leica M8) . I think the same rules applies to video cameras. I am so sorry for all of you guys who have problems (already) with your new toy/tool, but this time I am listening to wise man and letting other people be "beta testers" for the big brother...
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Saying he should have waited isn't solving his problem now, save this for a different post. He needs solutions not immature remarks.
 
Seems lika panny likes having issues with wb... My hpx500 has greenishntint on daylight preset, now af101..
 
If you pop in the DVD that came with your packaging, there's something called "AVCCAMRestore". this might reset everything in the AF100... might wanna give it a try.
 
I went to my retailer this morning but it is closed for vacation and it will open on january 7th. Now there are no more doubts: I have performed other test outdoor and the camera is affected by a yellow-greenish tint on midtones. Preset at 3.2k is also affected. Preset at 5.6k is good. Overexposed areas turn yellowish and overexposed sky turn from blu to light green. If I use gray card for balancing I have less yellow/green, but the color shifting in midtones is still there. The color shifting is much more evident in the camera monitor (that looks horrible) than in recorded clips. I'm starting to think that there is a bug in the white/black balance in this camera. The first days the camera worked very nicely, but after the yesterday balancing the color has pemanently shifted. No way to really reset the camera: I've tried the load/save/init menu also: no effect.
If someone else has similar problems, please, post in this thread
 
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