At 3:35 AM -1000 6/4/03, Gary Fujihara wrote: >K, > > I am up on the summit of Mauna Kea (I am a telescope operator for Subaru >Telescope), and have no access to my camera at the moment. It was actually >purchased in Japan before any consumer DV camcorders were available in the >US. It is manufactured by Sharp. There is a proprietary connector on the >camera that allows you to connect to a television, VCR with RCA connectors >with a supplied cable. This does not sound like a DV camcorder. You can, however, use an A/D converter, such as the Canopus ADVC-1000 (I may have mixed up those 4 letters a bit) to connect to your firewire port. -- Erica p.s. What are you observing these days? p.p.s. Watch out for those rotating bits! They can be lethal. >Best Regards >Gary Fujihara >-- >Subaru Telescope - NAOJ >650 N. A'Ohoku Place >Hilo, HI 96720 >(808) 934-5972