Don Palomaki |
October 22nd, 2007 07:09 AM |
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Originally Posted by Sunny Singh
(Post 762349)
... I've heard, and know from experience, that it's generally a bad idea to rewind and/or play tapes back on the GL2.
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Only in the contest of adding wear to the camcorder heads and tape drive. Many people use a low cost MiniDV camcorder, like the ZR series, for playback to put the wear on it rather than on the more expensive GL2. However, if you only plan to shoot 200 or so tapes over the life of the camcorder and edit to DVD, it really should make no difference.
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The tape door is stuck open. ... The tape mechanism doesn't budge or do anything...Does anyone have any other ideas on the possible problem?
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One possibility:If someone abuses the camcorder - like trying to close the tape transport mechanism improperly; e.g., pushing it down (the wrong direction) instead of in allowing the motors to complete closing action - all bets are off. Also, dropping the cassette in backwards will prevent closure, and something, like a wad of cassette label could have become jammed in the tape compartment.
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