Thanks from the guy with the DV camcorder without firewire

[Gary Fujihara]

Susan, Erica, Frank, Frank, Jim, Derek, Mark, Kevin, Bill, Daniel, Dmytro
and Kunga,

   Mahalo (thanks) for the responses.  I just joined this DV list and
appreciate all the helpful advice I received.

   Here is the deal:  My wife tells me that it is a Sharp model VLPD-7, and
there is a data port on it - a USB port.  The camera also comes with some
Windows video capture software.  Does anyone know what my options are now (I
know, I know...upgrade to a newer camcorder...unless I want to spend endless
hours uploading at 12 Mb/s transfer rates)?  Anyone want a used DV
camcorder?  :)

> Susan Tomanek:
> p.s. So you're the guy I see at night when I look at Mauna Kea from the
> Kohala Coast.

   Yea Susan, that would be me...

> Erica Sadun:
> My husband says that you all have the best optical telescope conditions
> in the Northern Hemisphere over there at Mauna Kea.
> 
> He says he's jealous and wishes he'd get a chance to observe...

   Your husband is right.  If you and your husband, or anyone else is in
Hilo, feel free to look me up and I can certainly give you a personal guided
tour of our 8.2m Subaru Telescope ('course, that comes with me picking your
brain about DV production)...


Best Regards
Gary Fujihara
-- 
Subaru Telescope - NAOJ
650 N. A'Ohoku Place
Hilo, HI 96720
(808) 934-5972

> From: Susan Tomanek <s.tomanek at gte.net>
> Reply-To: Macintosh Digital Video List <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 15:27:03 -0700
> To: Macintosh Digital Video List <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: [MacDV] Re: DV camcorder without firewire (was iMovie 3 isout)
> 
> Aloha Gary,
> I just looked at my old Sony PC-1 mini DV camera which I purchased in Japan
> in 1997. It has no "firewire" port. However, it does have a jack (or poo-kah
> as we say in the Islands) called DV IN/OUT. An i.Link cable (with very small
> and fragile ends) connects the camera to my Sony Vaio laptop pc which is
> vintage 1998 (64 MB ram, 6.4 GB hard drive, 300 MHz processor).  The DV
> IN/OUT jack is in a slot similar to the one you describe -- front right side
> of camera, long, rectangular, covered by a door, and has a slot for the
> proprietary cable with RCA jacks on the other end. Sound familiar?
> Check for the DV In/OUT jack. If you have it, I think you can buy a cable
> with i.Link connector on one end and firewire connector on the other, thus
> allowing you to upload directly from your camera into your Mac. I haven't
> needed this cable to connect to my Mac because I use a JVC deck instead of
> the camera for editing purposes.
> I hope this makes sense.
> Susan
> p.s. So you're the guy I see at night when I look at Mauna Kea from the
> Kohala Coast.
> 
> ----------
>> From: Gary Fujihara <fujihara at subaru.naoj.org>
>> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Subject: [MacDV] Re: DV camcorder without firewire (was iMovie 3 isout)
>> Date: Wed, Jun 4, 2003, 12:43 PM
>> 
> 
>> The DV camcorder I have was purchased in Japan several years ago before any
>> DV camcorders were available in the US (typically there are a number of
>> consumer electronics that are sold in Japan before they make it here...hence
>> my constant drooling appearance whenever a visiting astronomer brings one of
>> his "toys" to our observatory).
>> 
>> The camcorder takes mini-DV cassette tapes.  It has (as far as memory
>> dictates, as I am away from home on night duty) one data port on the front
>> right side of the camera that is a long rectangular slot covered by a rubber
>> door.  This slot accepts a proprietary cable that has RCA jacks on the other
>> end.
>> 
>> Since this camera was built around the time that IEEE 1394 may have first
>> came out, my guess was that Sharp may not have opted to include FW on it.  I
>> remember when my wife brought it home for my birthday present (totally
>> stoked), I searched around for a FW port because the PowerMac G3 that I had
>> just purchased had featured the new high speed serial port.
>> 
>> Could I have missed it several years ago because I was looking for a 6 pin
>> connector like the one on the back of the Mac (instead of the 4-pin)?
>> Possible, but unlikely since my wife also read the manual (it's in Japanese)
>> and could find no reference to FW or IEEE 1394.
>> 
>> Best Regards
>> Gary Fujihara
>> --
>> Subaru Telescope - NAOJ
>> 650 N. A'Ohoku Place
>> Hilo, HI 96720
>> (808) 934-5972
> 
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