A sad day for Analog Video…
Well, today is a sad day for me, I am going to put my analog Hi-8 video camera to pasture. I got this camera 10 years ago…from my uncle. It was the camera that I made some of my first films on, and also my first film I made in college was shot on this camera. It’s a Sony Handycam, I’ve done a lot with that little camera…and at the time it was pretty state of the art and pretty expensive. Now of course it’s just big, bulky and heavy. But I still use it from time to time to look at old Hi-8 tapes.
I pulled it out today to do some transferring of video, and the LCD screen turned completely white…and after adjusting the brightness and contrast dial on the camera it doesn’t seem to get any better.
The camera can still be hooked up to a television to view tape…but I think its days of recording new video are over with…
My Super 8 camera that my dad gave me was put out to pasture about 3 years ago, and now it lives in my Film and Photo archive display…which is now where this little camcorder is headed. I can’t get rid of it…so I might as well put it on display.