I have been transferring all my copies of video to DVD and I have been asked to transfer some old camera video from the original cassetts.
The original video camera tapes are marked up 'Sony Video8 P5-90.
How can I do this when the original camera is no longer available?
Dave
There's a bunch of services which will do this for you fairly inexpensively: for instance:
Borrow a video8 camera, buy a video8(ebay?) camera or get someone that has a video8 camera to do it for you.
Video8 was fairly common so there should be a few playback device around. Oh, a Hi8 camera should be able to play them too IIRC.
Thanks, I'll start asking around for one. I thought that they would be like rocking horse droppings these days.
Dave
With a Video8 playback device.
Or, in the spirit of the group, make one.
recoverable situation. Many thanks.
The owner is a lovely man and I don't want to let him down.
Dave
I knew they were available, but...
I think my best option is Jim's suggestion and side step the responsibility of destroying video that was taken of his g daughters in
1985.Never take a step forward, that you cannot take back is my motto.
Dave
Down to the local camera shop in the morning. Thanks all.
I'm sure an angle grinder could form the basis.
They do come up on Ebay from time to time. But 'deck' versions never caught on in the UK.
Surprised it wasn't transferred before?
I have one that I took apart. It looks like this:
I had some old cine film done at Jessops, and they charge per spool, regardless of how much footage it contains. Providing there aren't too many bits and pieces, it doesn't work out that expensive.
Gaffer tape.
I found out at lunchtime that the person that wants me to copy them gave the video camera to his son. And guess what? He still has it with the leads and PSU :-)
Dave
That is also an interesting snippet of info. I'll try them too, before I get hold of the original camera. I tend to favour putting the responsibility on someone else's shoulders on this one. The film was shot in 1985 and the subject is his grand daughters, one of whom has just emigrated to New Zealand to get married.
Dave
In message , Matty F writes
And succeeding. The camera still works fine. I will be using it with an infrared strobe flash to record the licence plates of vandals and robbers. The old Sonys have a remarkable zoom and good optics.
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