I bought a TRV900E about 9 months ago on eBay and it turned out it has another kind of problem famous with this actually pretty good camcorder: whenever I point it towards a bright light (like a window) the picture gets this strong green tint coming from the overexposed area shining over the rest of the image. I guess getting that fixed would cost more than 100€ which is too much for a >10 years old camcoder... Any idea what's causing it?
Hmm, I'd need to see the way it looks to really be able to say something. When pointed at extremely bright lights CCD image sensors can put a bright vertical stripe all across the picture. That's normal. However, as the effect is green it could also be a problem with the green sensor being too sensitive, although I have no idea what could be causing it to be that way.
@DrCassette Thanks for the response. Well, it's definitely not the CCD streaking vertically, that would look different and not greenish. I googled it and it seems other people have experienced this as well with this camcorder. I will see if I can record a short sample showing it. ;)
As long as the camcorder is not being exposed to backlight everything's fine. By the way did you find the white balance presets to be any useful? I did not.
That doesn't sound good... if it's a CCD problem it's certainly going to be complicated to get it fixed...
I so far haven't used the manual white balance, as the automatic system seems to do a pretty good job. The presets I guess are mostly for when things have to go really quick and you don't have the time to set up everything properly.
Not the best place to ask but,before buying a camera you check to see if it has a CCD sensor or CMOS sensor?Just came across a video and you seem the one to ask knowing you have and had a lot of cameras.
Both CCD and CMOS sensors have advantages and disadvantages. CCDs will produce white vertical stripes when pointed at a bright light, the CMOS sensors don't. However, the CMOS sensors have an effect called 'rolling shutter' that occurs at fast movements. The CCDs don't have that.
you could try cleaning the microphone thoroughly with some contact cleaner and try to flush the machine oil out of there. if it didn't work I would just get an external hotshoe stereo mic, 40 euro per mic seems an insane price to pay for a part like that.
I bought a TRV900E about 9 months ago on eBay and it turned out it has another kind of problem famous with this actually pretty good camcorder: whenever I point it towards a bright light (like a window) the picture gets this strong green tint coming from the overexposed area shining over the rest of the image. I guess getting that fixed would cost more than 100€ which is too much for a >10 years old camcoder... Any idea what's causing it?
Skiller444 2 weeks ago
@Skiller444
Hmm, I'd need to see the way it looks to really be able to say something. When pointed at extremely bright lights CCD image sensors can put a bright vertical stripe all across the picture. That's normal. However, as the effect is green it could also be a problem with the green sensor being too sensitive, although I have no idea what could be causing it to be that way.
DrCassette 1 week ago
@DrCassette Thanks for the response. Well, it's definitely not the CCD streaking vertically, that would look different and not greenish. I googled it and it seems other people have experienced this as well with this camcorder. I will see if I can record a short sample showing it. ;)
As long as the camcorder is not being exposed to backlight everything's fine. By the way did you find the white balance presets to be any useful? I did not.
Skiller444 1 week ago
@Skiller444
That doesn't sound good... if it's a CCD problem it's certainly going to be complicated to get it fixed...
I so far haven't used the manual white balance, as the automatic system seems to do a pretty good job. The presets I guess are mostly for when things have to go really quick and you don't have the time to set up everything properly.
DrCassette 1 week ago
Not the best place to ask but,before buying a camera you check to see if it has a CCD sensor or CMOS sensor?Just came across a video and you seem the one to ask knowing you have and had a lot of cameras.
costellom5 2 weeks ago
@costellom5
Both CCD and CMOS sensors have advantages and disadvantages. CCDs will produce white vertical stripes when pointed at a bright light, the CMOS sensors don't. However, the CMOS sensors have an effect called 'rolling shutter' that occurs at fast movements. The CCDs don't have that.
DrCassette 2 weeks ago
@DrCassette Thank you :)
costellom5 2 weeks ago
Even though it's costly I would suggest getting 2 mics,but only if you relly like this camera.
Where was the oil from?Is this the oil that was suppose to lube the zoom engine?
costellom5 4 weeks ago
@costellom5
I don't know how the oil got there. It has nothing to do with the zoom.
DrCassette 4 weeks ago
damn! that's like $60 American each!
goqwertygo 4 weeks ago
Why would they put oil on the mic?
GanEdenVideo 4 weeks ago
@GanEdenVideo
That was an error. The oil is not supposed to be on there in the first place.
DrCassette 4 weeks ago
So. Many. Ribbon. Cables XD
icarasDragon 4 weeks ago
you could try cleaning the microphone thoroughly with some contact cleaner and try to flush the machine oil out of there. if it didn't work I would just get an external hotshoe stereo mic, 40 euro per mic seems an insane price to pay for a part like that.
grassulo 4 weeks ago
@grassulo
The 99€ I ended up paying for two microphones sure is extremely high, but a good external mic would cost even more than that.
DrCassette 4 weeks ago
@grassulo
The 99€ I ended up paying for two microphones sure is extremely high, but a good external mic would cost even more than that.
DrCassette 4 weeks ago
@grassulo
The 99€ I ended up paying for two microphones sure is extremely high, but a good external mic would cost even more than that.
DrCassette 4 weeks ago
High-precision electret microphones this size usually are quite expensive.
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