I have a rarer camera and older than this. The very first betamovie. It was the one that coined the term camcorder. A combination camera and recorder. 1983, first consumer camcorder ever. The pros already had betacam but it was huge and cost a fortune.

What? Your phone can only do 4k@30? Must be a really old phone. My 3 year old ancient Samsung can do 4k@60 and the new ones 8k. I did a video a few years ago on my phone and couldn't believe how good it looked. That's why I just shake my head when I hear people talk about wanting to still shoot videos on this antique gear. Only thing i see them good for is playback of old tapes.

@@12voltvids My phone only does 4k at 30 but a budget priced phone the high end phones are really going all out now with the 8k and 108 mega pixel sensor,s

@@12voltvids Artistic effect these days, I know of a few other good tech KZfaqrs that have similarly recorded footage

@@rawr51919 Do the artistic effects in post.

Got to love all the buck passing and incompetence. The guy at the local UPS store basically just blew me off because he could. The lady at the shipping counter was kind of bitchy but at this point I didn't care. I had already wasted enough time on something I didn't make a penny on. Most would say it's beyond repair just recycle it this person wanted the dead unit back so they could put it up on eBay for parts. They pay shipping both ways it just annoyed me that I'm the one running around spending 3 hours getting it shipped which is what it cost me in the long run by the time I got home 3 hours.

Wow. I love the tuner unit. I saw one of those tuner units, or a similar one, which was in a "home of the future" poster. The monitor looked very similar, or was, a Sony Pro Feel. What a totally different era from todays.

Everything is for sale if the price if right.

Yours is even older than his by a few years, it's rarer than hen's teeth now

@@rawr51919 yes it is, and still looks like nearly new.. it never seen much use

Wait for a real high end one next.

Of course it does. Built before capacitorgate.

@@12voltvids I can’t understand what they were thinking installing those caps that would eventually leak over time. You said they had fish oil in them, right?

@@CordDaForceRAPSTAR The same idiots built a 6000 camera that can not be opened to repair it if the mechanism won't close due to a bad switch. Problem is you have to get it open to access that switch, and here lies the problem.

The adapter could power the camera or be plugged into the charge adapter that could hold 3 batteries and charge them sequentially. The tuner unit can charge the battery in the camera and an external battery again sequentially.

During Expo 86 the shop I worked at rented cameras to people going to expo. They were the ccdm8 with the evc8 to play. Most people would bring it back and have us copy the tape. That evc8 i have is from one of those rentals after they all broke.

@@12voltvids At my old job we used to copy Video 8 tapes to VHS and DVD for our customers which we used the EV-C8 to copy them using the same RF adaptor as the one you have and it had its own power pack that plugged into were the battery would go

@@andy_rulz2000 I have an evc8. Didn't you see it at the end.

@@12voltvids I did see that yes

Betamovie were record only devices. Perhaps I will try to fix mine one day.

@@12voltvids I have three of them! Last time I looked, at least one worked. But I was referring to the physical layout.

Not a reverse wrap beta. That is the original beta threading design. They changed to the clock wise wrap on the slotted drum on the sl2000 and beyond machines as it made the mechanism much more compact but far less reliable.

@@12voltvids That slotted drum design added friction to the tape path and, among other factors, is the reason of poor rewind and fast forward on aging 711B based decks.

@@Vintaginside No, the 711B decks had poor rewind was due to the upper drum being polished by video tape, especially the super smooth high grade tape. Solution was to remove the upper drum and use some gritty kitchen cleanser to remove the mirror like shine and reinstall. On some machines, namely the SL2000, 2500 and 2700 with it's direct drive tape hubs, the inertia and flywheel effect of the motor rotors causes tape slap that can snap the tape, or rip the guides out. Those 3 models were the worst ones sony made.

@@12voltvids Great, let me apply that trick!

That or lubricant has leaked our of the iris in the lens. That was common. Especially when people left their camera in their car. I ruined the lens on my little HDV camera when i did a 4 day motorcycle trip and had it in the saddle bag with luggage. Aparantly even at freeway speeds it gets very hot inside both from the sun and the fact it sits directly over a hot muffler. I let Sony deal with that because i had left the business by that point. They had to put a newebs on it. It was fogged up like this and also would not zoom.

They are good for 1 thing only. Playing old tapes to digitize.

@@12voltvids did just that in 2010.

V11 is a few years newer and has the bad caps in it.

@@12voltvids No, not V11, V1.

The manual has a copyright date of 1986 so I'm guessing it was released in 1986 or 1987.

I have a monitor that is well past 60,000 hours. Try that on a new one.

Yes it's back together.

@@12voltvids you mentioned that it took a little bit of time to put back together. is there any thing that stumped you, that I should look out for? I'll probably begin the teardown soon if I cannot locate a surrogate hi8/video 8 cam to view this stack of 8mm tapes. thanks in advance

What ups? Idiots all of them. They sure don't have any trouble billing for cross border broker fees which this guy will likely get. Thing is he sent it by mail and then when he wanted it back sent me a prepaid weighbill that was being delivered to a company. Hmmmm, I would think using a company account. Oh well it is out of my hands now.

That is basically what it is.

@@12voltvids I can only imagine how confortable it must be to carry this beast around. Really makes you appreciate the smaller cameras that came in afterwards, and even those feel a bit heavy to me.

@@enzoperruccio well it was certainly better then what was before it. A camera just as heavy and large and a seperate portable recorder for the other shoulder that weighed even more.

It isn't worth repair. Sorry. You would spend more getting this going that it is worth. How much parhaps 500 bucks or more. For s camera worth about 10.00

Does it play on the viewfinder? I have not had much luck with those av to HDMI converters. Do other analog devices play through the HDMI converter. Also i don't know if any laptops that have HDMI in. It has always been HDMI out to connect an external monitor.

@@12voltvids yes i can see through viewfinder....if i switch just camera can see in viewfinder but no in tv or laptop

@@MrDavidyaz have you checked that av to HDMI adapter with a known good video source like a VCR

No it's even simpler than that. 2 little tiny belts that drive the zoom and focus mechanism from the little dc motors.

@@12voltvids are the belts cut?

@@amatorev probably turned to goo

@@12voltvids so I can open it to see if the straps are damaged or out of place?

@@amatorev yes if you open the case the belts are accessable.

It will do pcm if the optional pcm adapter was plugged in. Yes there was a pan available they looked just like the tuner that would charge batteries and allow pcm audio dubbing and it had a tuner as well if i remember so it would turn the camera into a hi fi stereo VCR.

Sony was very cool at the time. Not today :(

The CCDV220 had PCM sound

I have a beta movie that does not record. I have not gotten around to repairing it. It's a high-end gcs1 professional.

@@12voltvids ooh, that'd be an interesting one to see on the bench!

Guys in the states he shift it to me by post and when it was ready to go back I went to the post office got it weighed and got him the price to ship it he asked for the price I told him the wait which in Canada is in kilograms the dumbass didn't convert it to pounds and bought postage for a package waiting kilograms which of course there's 2.2 lb to 1 kg therefore he was way off and that's probably why he thought it was so much cheaper to use UPS but you see now because he sent it to my PO box and UPS can't deliver to a PO box it can't come back to me therefore if they can't get it to him they will throw it away because I left it on the counter and walked out and basically gave UPS the raised middle finger as I left. I hate DHL UPS and FedEx because they shove their corporate dick up every Canadian's butt with every delivery that crosses the border with processing fees that cost many times more than the item being received. I had a $2 part sent to me and it arrived with $37.50 in broker fees. Just reading on CBC news today that there's going to be a class action lawsuit against DHL for these fees I can't wait to sign up and put these bastards out of business for ripping us off all these years

@@12voltvids most of the shipping companies will let u input kg or lb so that's on him the ups workers though should have taken the package they are to just reweigh and stuff and then they adjust it and put the higher amount on the persons account that's how its always worked for me. ups can be alot cheaper to the us at least if u use a 3rd party to get discounts. i use one called netparcel i can ship like a 2 pound package to the us via ups for $9--10 cad with full tracking canada post would charge me $13 to do the same without tracking and $18 with tracking and it takes alot longer to get there. us customers don't need to worry to much about the fees because there gov isn't as greedy as ours and let them import upto 800 usd before they require the package to be taxed so ups/fedex ect charge them nothing as long as the package is under 800. were as us even after the usmca thing they only upped it from 20 cad to 40 cad so if the package is under 40 cad u dont get no fees over then u get raped by the shipping company. there was a petition sometime in like 2016 that was sent to the gov over 200k people signed asking that they raise the limit to something sane like $200 and all they did was raise it to $40 woooo. ctv did a news piece on it and i guess because they waste there time collecting tax on packages of such low value it cost us tax papers 3x more money to pay the customs workers then the amount of tax there taking in for collecting the tax on these packages.

@@mraaron1584 Got nothing to do with tax. FedEx DHL and UPS has been F---ing canadians up the a55 for so long. Even when there is NO tax at all, on a 3.00 part, they charge 25.00 broker fee, which is subject to tax $2.50 and then add an additional 10.00 as a "loan fee" because they paid the tax on the broker charge. So now that 3.00 part has 27.50 added. It happened to me multiple times. I had a defective LED light bulb and called the 800 number and the manufacture sent me a free replacement, and then the 37.50 bill arrives, and if you tell them to shove it up their a55 they send to collections and then some d1ckhead calls at 4:30 in the mordning demanding payment.