Don Greening
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[Colin Thrupp] “how much did t cost ya to replace / repair the sensor?”
I don’t know offhand how much it will cost but I do know that it won’t be cheap. Firstly Sony doesn’t replace just one sensor but instead the sensor ‘block’ which is an assembly of all three of them. Then they start at the back of the camera to get at the sensor block. This is because the lens is attached from inside the front of the camera body. The sensor block is just behind the focal point which is shown on the right side of the camera body.
– Don
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It comes with 3 PL mount lenses: 35. 50 and 85mm. Price is 16K without lenses (according to Gary Adcock). It has a specialized front hot shoe for electric interfacing with the Cooke/i and Arri LDS so long as you buy the interfaces.
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Have you tried pushing in the eject button for that slot and pulling out the card at the same time?
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The same thing happened to me once or twice with my original EX1 which at the time was one of the first batch of cameras sold. I remember turning on the camera and the view screen showed a green picture just like yours. I think the problem was software, in that sometimes the camera didn’t boot up properly. Once Sony did a firmware update I never saw that problem again and it’s never appeared on my EX1R or EX3.
If you shut your camera off and the problem goes away after you start up I would just be aware that this will happen from time to time. If the problem persists on a regular basis then try this: if you have picture profile settings on your camera and want to keep them, transfer them to one of your SxS cards and then utilize the “RESET ALL” in the OTHERS menu.
If that doesn’t work then get your camera to Sony for a checkup and a firmware update.
– Don
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[Brandon Carter] “Should I also be backing up the BPAV folder?”
Yes. Think of the BPAV folder as the new video tape. Don’t forget that this ‘digital negative’ is still in a format that can be read by both Mac and PC. Somewhere down the road you might need that capability, so don’t limit yourself to just Mac.
[Brandon Carter] “Am I supposed to be running a 3rd hard drive (or even a 4th) as my backup of the BPAV file? “
Yes, indeed.
[Brandon Carter] “I just want to make sure that my stuff is right at this time next year when I need to go edit it. “
Put your archived BPAV stuff on a separate hard drive. Spin it up every couple of months just like a car in temporary storage. Don’t use an old hard drive for the obvious reasons. Store this drive in a location other than where you store your other media.
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[Richard Doyle] ” I never gave a command to write back to the card.”
You don’t have to. That’s why it was a bug.
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[Daniel Wright] “Why you are seeing a ‘There may be insufficient disc space’ message, I am not sure. I have only seen this message when there is really not enough disc space.”
If memory serves it was a bug in the transfer program. In some instances when you have the SxS card selected to import and transcode the clips, the program thought it was writing back to the card, hence the warning.
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It’s supposed to reduce chromatic aberrations (the colours separating out) with the wide angle attached. It acts sort of like an internal LUT or ‘Look Up Table’ just like the big boys. Wide angle lenses are more predisposed to C/A than regular lenses.
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Keep in mind that Sony has to protect the sales of its higher end XDCAM HD lineup. Canon has no such limitation so it will load up their new models with whatever it takes to increase market share.
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You can use Quicktime Player for this:
- Start QT Player and import the file you want to convert.
- Choose ‘Export’ from the file menu
- Select ‘Movie to MPEG-4’ from the selection at the bottom of the Save dialogue window that appears.
- Click on ‘Options’ beside the ‘Export’ pop-up selections
- In the sub-window that appears choose ‘H.264’ in the Video Format selection menu.
- From there you can choose the rest of your movie setup prefs.
Please make a note in your posts if you decide to post the same question to multiple forums. That way the the folks answering you aren’t wasting their time if someone else has already given you a correct response.
– Don
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