XL1s total hour usage.
 

Just wondering if there is a way to check the total logged hours on a XL1s.

Sorry for post. I checked the manual and searched this forum.

Thanks

I think you can't, sorry.
Good luck.

I seem to recall canon can do this in service, but it's not a 'user accessable' feature.

Then I quess that's a darn good reason why its not in the manual.

Thanks for taking the time to reply

Sorry but Canon chooses not to reveal this information.

Checking hours on an xl1
 

Is there a way to check the hours on an xl1? I am looking at buying one, but he has no clue how many hours on the camera. When i did some shots, the footage was amazing. I would just like to know if there is a way to tell the hours.

Thanks

No meta data
 

I have not ever seen this on any consumer accessible menu.

Since the cam is at least 5 years old, you might demand a checkup at a Canon location and inspect the drum and heads. These are frequent candidates for replacement to the tune of up to 900 bucks....

See http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showpost....39&postcount=2

Reading Hours on Camera
 

Is there a way using the remote (or other means) to be able to find out how many hours of head use on the XL1?

None of the XL cameras have a customer accessible hours meter. There may be something the factory knows, but it's never been revealed if that's true.

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OK, thanks....

I just dropped my XL-1 off at canon for the yearly cleaning...they said they can tell me what the hours are. Now with that said, how many hours are considered a lot???

If you can find out how they do it, let us know.

Sorry, no luck.

When I dropped the camera off at canon, I was told that there is an internal meter and that they can provide the hours while it's being serviced (routine cleaning). BUT, when I picked it up there was no hours provided. The girl simply said "oh, they did everything else, but didn't provide the requested hours". SOOOO, I have a feeling that she didn't know what she was talking about when she told that they can provide that information.

Oh well.

Statistics on camera usage
 

Is there a way where I could quickly see how many hours of filming the xL1s has (OPERATION, DRUM RUN, TAPE RUN, THREADING) ?

Thanks.

Daniel

What about a GL2 is this also possible ?