Tapes

Just remember that all batteries "leak" charge. If you store them so the connections point upwards, the electrons have a harder time leaking out, so they hold charge longer.

I can remember when I put a battery in a drawer laying on it's side and 4 years later when I really needed it, it was completly discharged. Now I have a thin layer of electrons in the drawer and I'm not sure how to get rid of them.

Any ideas?

Ken :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
Maybe you can throw a frag grenade in the drawer and hit the deck? I always do that with all my problems.
 
I'm just saying I have a kitchen full of debris and a layer of electrons all over everything.

Thanks.

-GageFX
 
drdimento said:
We tried all kinds of dry tapes and the upbeat is that the Panasonic tapes give us the least dropped frames when used in either the DVC60 or DVX100B. AND (equally important) a used tape has far less dropped frames than a new tape! Explain that one tape guys??? New tapes drop frames twice as often as used ones.

Our dropped frame experience average

new = 1 (occasionally but seldom more than 1) incidence per 3 to 5 tapes
used = 1 (seldom more than 1) incidence 6 to 10 tapes

How much experience? We use approximately 15 to 20 tapes per taping session (3 to 4 cameras on 4 to 6 taping sets) one to three times a month and 4 to 8 new tapes per single session (constantly switching tapes AND YES we'd love to have firestore or somebody like them . . but . . $$$) and thus we're logging about 15 to 20 camera hours across 3 or 4 cameras.

Hope that helps. BTW . . we use NO SONY tapes because of the wet lubricant issue and have used only Maxell other than the Panasonics. What kind of Panasonic? The ones on ebay for under $2 each and we buy by the 50 or 100 :)
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In analog audio recording, tape heads burnish the tape and they often sound better wehn they've been recorded on. It's probably the same thing in digital causing fewer dropouts. Also, excercising the tape can be beneficial. FF to the end and the RR back to the top before use. I've never heard anyone recommend doing this for video, but this could be what you're expereincing.
 
The Cash said:
I agree with Andy. It's important to use only one type of tapes for all recording for the reasons he mentioned. I first used the DVCam tapes from Sony recording in my Sony Camcorder and later a bought me some PQ cassettes. I must tell you that I noticed richer colors from PQ's. Even my friends using them told me the same thing. Also every professional camera operator working with the DV told me that PQ and MQ are the best tapes made for DV format.
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You undersant that color infromation is encoded and decoded in the camera/playback machine and that the tape is a binary representation, right? That means the data is eitehr present and accurate or not present and you'll have a dropout, not a change in color.
 
Mike Caffrey said:
You undersant that color infromation is encoded and decoded in the camera/playback machine and that the tape is a binary representation, right? That means the data is eitehr present and accurate or not present and you'll have a dropout, not a change in color.
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I understand, Mike, I'm just telling you what I see. Maybe I should make same test with same camera and different tapes shooting the same things. Anyhow, I won't trade the Panasonic's tapes.
 
I've had good luck with the Panasonic AY-DVM60's. Around $2.45/ea in bulk (50).

Does anyone else have any experience with these, good or bad?
 
Now that everyone has my interest peaked regarding miniDV tape quality... what does PQ and MQ stand for? Who makes them?

Can they be used on a GL2? I need to buy some extra miniDV tapes and was wondering where is a good place to get em cheap? Thanks!
 
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