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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 08:01:52 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   arg. I got a video camera at the electronics fair, and I'm gonna need to pay more than the camera costs to get the fucking manual.

   that should be illegal

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 08:29:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I got it working. Screw the service manual!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 08:31:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     This is a JVC GX-J700U color video camera, from approximately 1984.
     It's got "excellent picture quality", 360 lines resolution!
     It's got genlock, color bars, and built in character generator.
     (It's also got a mic and viewfinder, but I pulled them off for this picture)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 08:32:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I don't know why it's outputting B&W. this is supposedly a color camera.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 08:39:00 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • 🍥SarahBurnout🍥

     @homelessjun No tape: This is just a camera, not a camcorder. I'm pulling video off the Video Out port.

     /Maybe/ it outputs monochrome there but color on the VTR port, but that'd be weird

   • 🍥SarahBurnout🍥 (homelessjun@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 08:39:01 JST 🍥SarahBurnout🍥

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     @foone perhaps it is too old to put colour anywhere but on the tape? i remember old studio cameras doing this.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 08:40:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I opened it up to check for anything obviously wrong. Nope. I'd need to actually buy the service manual to have any idea how to fix this.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 08:45:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     good lord JVC, is that enough trimpots?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 08:47:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Inside the foldy-down bit.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 09:05:05 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Tachibana Kanade

     @h0m54r I don't think so, I think this is only an NTSC camera, and so is my PVM

   • Tachibana Kanade (h0m54r@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 09:05:06 JST Tachibana Kanade

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     @foone Could it be a PAL/NTSC thing?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 09:37:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • etherknot

     @etherknot that's for the fade: you can fade out to solid colors

   • etherknot (etherknot@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 09:37:30 JST etherknot

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     @foone there is a colour option on the top left of the switches? 🙃

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 11:36:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • etherknot

     @etherknot of course

   • etherknot (etherknot@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 11:36:35 JST etherknot

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     @foone but did you try it?

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 21:06:39 JST vxo

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     @foone Just to get in the right general ballpark - pop the video out up on a scope, set the trigger to TV line if available, or otherwise just set the trigger to normal mode, falling edge, adjust the level until it's below 0v and mess with it till it stabilizes. Do you have a burst at the beginning of each line?
     (See my highly useful pinned... shitpost.)

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 01:06:53 JST vxo

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     @foone nice analog delay line taking center stage there :3

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 07:02:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • vxo

     @vxo lovely!

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 07:02:48 JST vxo

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     @foone I have this bonkers old Sony that is in the running. It's a three tube camera

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 07:26:41 JST vxo

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     @foone my favorite is the diagonal 'this is where I go' stripe across each card

     In theory, somewhere out there, someone must have module extender cards to let you test on the cards with them popped out the side