Sony F900 rejecting new cleaning head tape

Mike Krumlauf

Mike Krumlauf

Award Winning Filmmaker
Got a BCT-HD12CL Head Cleaning HDCAM tape for my F900's tape deck. When i put the tape in, the deck automatically spits it out. What could be wrong?
 
The cameras ID tapes by the "holes" in the bottom of the cassettes. Just spitballing, because I don't think I ever used a cleaning tape on a 900, BUT maybe the camera recognizes that it is a cleaning tape and it's possible the camera knows when it "needs" to have the heads cleaned and if it does not, then it won't let you just willy-nilly run a cycle, because cleaning tapes are very abrasive and really are a "last resort" or emergency solution. If a camera needs its heads cleaned, it should be a wet cleaning, if possible.
 
Got it. Thanks man :). I figured the cleaning process was a little different from Mini DV for even DVCPRO HD
 
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