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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 04:17:38 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   This shit should be illegal
   DC 12v, and then a mini-DIN-8?
   WHERE DOES THE 12V GO?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 04:47:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     So this is for a JVC TK-1070U high resolution color video camera. It's specifically designed for computer inputs, and it boasts a 768x493 pixel CCD!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 04:50:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     and I'm really only going into how it works because I was opening it up and it's fucking gorgeous inside. Look at this! it's a bunch of tightly packed vertical boards!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 04:53:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     oh my god the bottom PCB tries to document what all the pins are for!

     I NEED TO FIND WHO DESIGNED THIS SO I CAN KISS THEM

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 04:55:52 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     ah-ha! there's continuity from my guessed-12v line to one end of this fuse but not the other.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 04:58:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Bypass the fuse, give it 12v at about 0.6A, and WE HAVE LIFE!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 05:00:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I thought I had some fuses on hand but nope, it just turns out they're somewhat-offensively-named lightbulbs. huh.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 05:04:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Found the manual on the internet archive:

     https://archive.org/details/manual_TK1070E_SM_JVC_EN

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 05:21:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     good news: it technically works
     See this output?
     It's seeing a line of white dots on black.

     and I'm shoving an LED strip light into the camera. So it works, it's just incredibly dark

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 05:33:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     OH THIS FUCKER IS OUTPUTTING PAL

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 05:34:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     why would a japanese company make a camera that I found in the US OUTPUT PAL VIDEO?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 05:39:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     so I'd also need to hack a connector for the auto-iris lens to get this to work. I thought I could just temporarily power it and get it to open up and let me use it fixed-iris/fixed-focus, but nope! the way it controls the iris means as soon as you remove the power, it closes

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 05:47:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Saffron🏳️‍⚧️

     @spinach Nah. Looking at the docs, they don't support that. I guess because this thing is intended for computer-based imaging and not broadcast video, they figured PAL would give them higher resolution so why bother?

   • Saffron🏳️‍⚧️ (spinach@girlcock.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 05:47:42 JST Saffron🏳️‍⚧️

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     @foone Is it a mode switch somewhere on a board? When I did video hardware we had switches to change the frequency for PAL and NTSC.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 05:52:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     god damn it, this was all avoidable. This camera was in a characteristic nest of wires and bodges that screamed "someone has hacked on this before, and came away unsatisfied". and this is why. The fuse is blown, the auto-iris lens is shut, and it's outputting PAL in an ex-NTSC territory.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 05:55:30 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     "I should have known better, but I did it anyway" is basically the throughline of my entire career, I guess.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 06:05:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • genstar.service

     @Genstar PAL50

   • genstar.service (genstar@meow.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 06:05:59 JST genstar.service

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     @foone What kind of PAL? PAL50 or PAL60 (Brazil)?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 06:25:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • genstar.service

     @Genstar no opinion, really. I don't mess around with much other than NTSC

   • genstar.service (genstar@meow.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 06:25:16 JST genstar.service

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     @foone What do you think of PAL-N? (Is PAL but also it's compatible with the monochrome signal of NTSC)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 07:38:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Dr J. Wallace

     @jeawallace 50!

   • Dr J. Wallace (jeawallace@topspicy.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 07:38:50 JST Dr J. Wallace

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     @foone PAL at 50Hz or PAL at 60? The amount of stuff I've seen emit the latter as some sort of debug/ kludge mode in the US market is surprisingly high, as it sort of matches PAL-M for Brazil, and it was a big thing to grey import tech from the likes of Florida to Brazil a decade or so ago.