[MacDV] Re: These miniDV cameras sure are fragile

[Erica Sadun]

At 4:43 AM -0800 2/5/03, Thubten Kunga wrote:
>You mean so the heads become accustomed to a particular brand's tape 
>formula or what? Why?
>
>k

Theory is that the differently branded lubricants interacted
with each other and gummed up the mechanism.

-- Erica


>
>On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 04:33  AM, Aixa Marquez wrote:
>
>>They said to use any brand, as long as it's the same brand each 
>>time.  I brought it up here on this listserv and a lot of people 
>>seemed to have learned this, as well.
>>
>>Dan
>>
>>>And what brand was that?
>>>
>>>k
>>>
>>>On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 06:42  PM, aixa at mac.com wrote:
>>>
>>>>By the time we learned that we should use one brand, it was too late:
>>>>we already had too much footage on several different brands.