First time user asks stupid questions

[Mark Bennett <blackice@pavilion.co.uk>]

Hello out there,



I'm the first time user and I'm going to ask some stupid questions about

the pixelvision I just got last week. I hunted around the website for a FAQ

file, but didn't find one so appologies if this has been repeated before.



First thing I noticed is that it's acting flakey when I press the

appropriate buttons for recording. I thought it was the drive belts, but

that was ok'd by an engineer. Then thought it was the batteries since we

tested it with the powersupply and it seemed ok.



Now that I put it back together it's still not recording/playing when I'm

hitting the right buttons 100% of the time - more like 80%. It will record

straight off if I leave the pause off, but the second I switch it on it

seizes up. I think the switches are warn or the plasic buttons are loose or

something. Any ideas?



Update: as of my last set of experiments with the camera the record buttons

are ok, but the pause only seems to work in one direction ie: off - on then

seizes if I go off to on again. Is the tiny switch the loose link in the

chain?



I have also secured an old dial NTSC set to watch the tapes on (I'm in

Brighton, England). Signal out seems to be noisier than the films I've seen

made with the camera. I am getting noise on the entire screen - but when

set the TV to mid settings it looks ok ie the black goes black. However to

get it to look good I have to twiddle with the brightness -/+ contrast and

I get the noise coming up over the image _and_ the black boarders.



A test tape was shot by a friend with the camera in NYC and while one tape

was ok, the second only contained the audio track and the image was a mess

of loose pixels.



Also: Want to buy a used and functioning pixelvision if anyone one has a

spare at a reasonable price please contact me.



Thanks in advance for any suggestions.





Mark Bennett

Black Ice - Editor/Publisher

Perspectives - Executive Producer



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