Roman, there are many threads here with reports of various (many) bugs, purple dog sounds like another one, and many sample clips that you could download. But if anybody has better, please send to Roman. Unless they were designed in Mpeg4 that way, there is no way it is not a bug, and that goes for a lot of things.

It would be interesting to find out how many readers, including the hidden ones, have found bugs? Would be suggested for all readers to report everything to Sanyo.

Well done, Roman.

Submission
 

Roman, I have two movies you might want to use. They're not my best examples of a defective HD1 I returned to Amazon (great place to purchase gear from, though), as those never made it past the early editing stage. But I've got two that show a split screen difference in exposure and artifactual bars of alternating exposure levels. I can also attest to the purple artifact as well, still present in my replacement HD1. Email me to let me know if you'd like to download them, and I'll send you the links.

Split Screen Issue help GREATLY appreciated
 

seems like a minor issue but it is a very visible defect in recordings of lower light levels. If they told me it had this problem I wouldn't have bought the camera. I took a quick vid just now, the problem is noticible. IMO the room is well lit enough to take good video. Other times it is much worse. Here is the link

http://www.lanceandrachel.com/SANY0035.MP4

There is a definite vertical line about the middle of the screen, with the entire left side looking different from the right. You can minimize the effect some by messing with some of the settings however slight changes in light levels or background can make it stand out prominantly. I had hoped that it was a viewfinder issue but it shows up in the recorded video. It is not a memory card compatibility issue, the camera shows this problem with no card at all.

If you could talk to them and get some information from them about this I and others with this problem would be most grateful. Good luck and thanks.

Hi Lance i just downloaded your file and transferred to my my camera.
thank you for footage

Roman, what happened with your meeting?

While you are there, could you ask if it is possible for somebody to arrange to get a camera SDK/limited SDK, so I can program a new compression scheme? But do this after you find out about everything else.


Thanks

Wayne.

Today I got a call from Mr. Durte. His responds was that there is nothing wrong with my camera . I just left him a message i want to know about a footage that gave it to him on my card. I will get to you guys as soon as i get a call back

Thanks!
 

Thank you very much for doing this and please do keep us posted.

Hello Guys yesterday I got my camera back from Sanyo. Camera was not in need of repairs I was told by Mr. Duarte So my purple dog , leaves and terrible low light footage are just part of my imagination. Personally I’m DONE with Sanyo I’m giving my camera to my sister she is 10 to play with. I was lucky I was able got hold of Sony FX 1E camera. Footage is unbelievable so I’m moving to Sony FX1 forum . Here an address for repairs for cameras with split screen issue if you have this address already then guys sorry

Customer Care Service
11343 Moorpark St.
Studio City CA 91602
Tel 1 (818) 508 0947
PS.please provide valid receipt or proof of purchase

And you want to give a call to Mr. Duarte and tell him how “great” Sanyo HD camera is here is his Phone number 1 (818) 717 2755 Ext. 457

Hope you're getting a nice BIG case to put it in!
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=39573

At least it worth it

Yes, I suspect they think it is suitable "consumer" quality, though I rarely meet a consumer with a "purple" dog. Some people might think this makes Sanyo look less than top (hint*2) but how good can we expect outside the top manufacturers? If the video codec function, function, and reliability of this camera was on the level of the JVCHD1/10 it would really shine, which is great for consumer (I like XDCAM HD quality for low end professional).

Pity, I beautiful camera in ways.


Thanks Roman.

Roman some thoughts have been occurring to me recently:

Maybe when they say that a purple dog is not a defect, that purple lines are not a defect, and other such things, they are really saying that even though it is a problem it is within the expected range of performance of the camera. I also wonder if the diagonals blocking problem might be some Mpeg4 specification issue, which would mean it is a hitch of mpeg4 performance, or that there could be some codec/viewer out there that would display it properly.

I'm not saying these things are ideally acceptable to us, but that they might never have designed the camera to be without them.