I must admit I do occasionally buy the odd vintage camcorder from time to time but they can be an absolute nightmare to strip down with 6 thousand screws Hidden all over the place. But the lenses come in handy and the ccd sensors can sometimes be quite cool. Nice video teardown as always 👍🏻

I worked at an independent warranty repair center in 1980. We repaired those JVC cameras. As you can see, they were not fun to work on.

so amazing information thank you sir

Imagine repairing those for just a few quid, and the customer complaining it now doesn't quite work the way it did! "I won't my money back!"

24:38 now this is pretty neat. If must be flash memory of some kind

Is the large amount of shielding foil and copper for Faraday cage or x-ray ? P.$. don't throw away the base plate with the tripod mount - could be very useful. 👏👏👏👏🇦🇺

Usually, if one has the patience to salvage parts from camcorders ... you get a LOT of small trimpots, some SMD CMOS 4000 stuff, and sometimes the viewfinder is a monitor in itself - most other stuff is extremely video specific and useless for anything else, or not worth the effort. The drum might be useful as a bearing - I saw some projects where people used these as low friction reels for coil winders for very thin wires....