• Panasonic Cameras

  Rune, Leo, John, Gary, anyone……

  Posted by Cartwright on August 10, 2006 at 7:38 pm

  Twice, in the past month, while using the same Varicam, I have had to deal with the ENG Security turning on without my knowledge.

  The 1st time, a card was read to the camera, causing the camera to lock up, only permitting me access to the User menus and for one reason or another, my video signal was terminated… After 8 or so attempts at regaining access to all the menus, everything was back up and working. I got all access back to every menu, and my video signal was back…

  The 2nd time I was locked out, only permitting me access to the User menus and terminating my video signal, was not from reading a card. It happened when new settings were dialed into the camera, saved as a user file. Settings that were changed were the following:

  Mater Ped, Master DTL, Master Gamma, Matrix settings, Some Color Correction 1 & 2, Some Low/Mid/High settings.

  Nothing that should change video output, or the ENG Security settings.

  Only this time the new settings were saved to the camera, not to a card. After the setting were saved to the camera, THAT

  John Chater replied 19 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Leo Ticheli

  August 10, 2006 at 7:45 pm

  I’m not a camera engineer, but my immediate thought is that you have a corrupted data card which then corrupted the settings in the camera.

  I would try restoring all the factory defaults and then manually put in your own settings. Destroy the old data card and write your settings to a new one.

  This certainly can’t hurt and just might fix the problem. If not, you really need to send it in.

  Without doubt I would call Panasonic and report the problem; they may have some history on it or be able to advise you.

  Good luck!

  Leo
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  Gary Adcock

  August 11, 2006 at 11:41 am

  [Leo Ticheli] “I’m not a camera engineer, but my immediate thought is that you have a corrupted data card which then corrupted the settings in the camera. “

  I’m not a camera guy at all, I just understand all of the post issues, but leo sounds correct. I have actually seen corruption on an settings file corrupt my still cameras operations.

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  John Chater

  August 12, 2006 at 1:07 am

  I had the same thing happen once when I tried to save a file to the camera. Very strange. That was a few years back. Never happened again.
  FYI a paintbox is the easiest way to get into menus you have been locked out of.

  John Chater
  San Francisco

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