yeah, I'm gonna really rattle those chains now, this is unacceptable.

DAY 35:

No one from Sony ever called BUT the camera shows up in Fed Ex this morning.

It seems to work well. The lens had fingerprints on it, as did the flipout monitor but that cleaned up quickly.

So far, from the tests I've run, it works super fine. ... the only bad thing I've found is all the profiles are gone, even those that came with the camera; so I gotta recreate some of those.

But... yep... got it back. ... finally. ;-)

--Ralph

mazel tov.....

leslie

Final, final report for this topic:

Have had the camera back three weeks now... have shot quite a few hours with it. Packed it in to waterfalls on the Cumberland Plateau of eastern Tennessee, taken it to the ocean -- shooting a full hour TV special in Georgetown and Pawleys Island this past weekend ... shot something over eight hours for "Rapid Ralph Runs the Roads" (mount the cam in the car, drive fast over mountain roads). And a bunch of other stuff.

Conclusions:

1. They fixed it and it works SWEETLY.

2. It's better than new... i.e. sound is definitely better and darned if I don't think it's sharper, but the latter may just be my imagination. ;-)

3. V1 rocks!

4. But don't EVER let it break, service is sloooooooooow and they don't tell you nuthin.

--Ralph