Wanted Camcorder (buy, borrow, hire)

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Mcclegend

Mcclegend

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I know it’s a long shot but I’m asking as you never know.

Parental unit has been talking with my little niece about our old home movies and so my mother has dug out our old cameria and tapes, I’ve about 10 tapes to transfer onto Blu-ray.

How ever cameria won’t turn on, the sponge foam on the microphone has perished away and it must not have been looked at since my 18th birthday over 20 years ago. so I’m looking for a video8, hi8 or digital camcorder (or player) to buy, borrow or hire till I get these tapes transferred, I’ve all the gear todo it apart from the means to play it.

Won one on eBay for £20 but they say they dropped it and it smashed, they have refunded but PayPal says it’s gonna take 7 days to get it.

Anyone have a working cameria, willing to transfer a few tapes if you want to lend me it, or cold hand cash to hire or buy for the right camera.
 
If nobody else comes up with a machine, it is possible that I may be able to assist but you will have to wait until I can find it!! Video 8. Did have a camera and a Sony player - somewhere!!
 
I’m in Glasgow (I really really wish I wasn’t) at the minute and there is two in cash converters but they want £55 for each.
 
Mcclegend said:
I’m in Glasgow (I really really wish I wasn’t) at the minute and there is two in cash converters but they want £55 for each.
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I have two possibilities, first is one of the first early Sony video 8 machines but I reckon that might not be able to be charged as the battery has been flat for too many years and the second is a Sony Walkman which makes use of the mains supply as well as the battery - just as well as I suspect that might not be chargeable after all these years too! It is similar to this ebay item
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-GV-...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649.
You are more than welcome to use it if you reimburse me for the postal cost! Let me know if it is of interest and I will search it out!
 
That’s an expensive bit of kit to post. I’m gonna ring the better half in the morning to see what she thinks.

I won’t need batteries it will just be plugged into the mains.

Found some prices of people to do it and they want £6.50 to £12.00 per hour of video.
I can rent a cameria for £20 a day + postage but I think that’s a bit steep.

Thanks for the offer I’ll let you know. Do you have any tapes you need transferred.
 
I think I have one in the shed. I have loads of tapes (the little ones that need transferring but aint got a firewire connection on mi laptop.

Last time I looked at it the onboard screen wouldnt work but the pictures played back through the eyepiece.

Im sure its a 8 of some description............................ any good to you?
 
You sure it’s a video8/hi8 camcorder they are all all analogue and won’t have a digital out. Some Digital8 might have a FireWire output and if it does your lucks as you can capture digitally and would hold onto the cameria as they are going up in value.

One of my pc’s has a RealMagic capture card in costing £300 about 15 years ago and just gets transplanted into different pc’s as I upgrade. The other pc I bought a 2 port FireWire card for £6.99 from amazon. The cheaper card captures better than the older expensive one and is comparable with windows video capture software that’s built in. It’s just a bog standard basic cheap card.

But I’m not using any of those, I’m lucky enough to have a framemeister.

Amazon product

I run the analogue signal (I’ve got video8 so not digital) into this and then it’s gets digitised and I choose if I wanted to output in either 720p or 1080p and capture it digitally through my hdmi recorder to mp4 file on a memeroy stick that I can do what I want with then.
 
This reminds me of a few years ago, my mother in law had a stack of home video cassettes but nothing to play them on. They were mostly of holidays, the long dead dog and her deceased husband. We took the lot to Jessops and paid over a hundred pounds to get them put onto DVD. There wasn't a decent 5 minutes video in the whole lot. Las time I do the silly old bat a favour.

Col
 
I have a sony handycam kit complete. Not been used for years.
Battery is shot, but you can run it off the mains I should imagine.
Transport costs would be down to you.
 
Colthebrummie said:
This reminds me of a few years ago, my mother in law had a stack of home video cassettes but nothing to play them on. They were mostly of holidays, the long dead dog and her deceased husband. We took the lot to Jessops and paid over a hundred pounds to get them put onto DVD. There wasn't a decent 5 minutes video in the whole lot. Las time I do the silly old bat a favour.

Col
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Pity that, my loft is home to at least 4 of those. The oldest is an original Ferguson Videostar with the piano key operation!
 
Mcclegend said:
You sure it’s a video8/hi8 camcorder they are all all analogue and won’t have a digital out. Some Digital8 might have a FireWire output and if it does your lucks as you can capture digitally and would hold onto the cameria as they are going up in value.

One of my pc’s has a RealMagic capture card in costing £300 about 15 years ago and just gets transplanted into different pc’s as I upgrade. The other pc I bought a 2 port FireWire card for £6.99 from amazon. The cheaper card captures better than the older expensive one and is comparable with windows video capture software that’s built in. It’s just a bog standard basic cheap card.

But I’m not using any of those, I’m lucky enough to have a framemeister.

Amazon product

I run the analogue signal (I’ve got video8 so not digital) into this and then it’s gets digitised and I choose if I wanted to output in either 720p or 1080p and capture it digitally through my hdmi recorder to mp4 file on a memeroy stick that I can do what I want with then.
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Delivery tomorrow!
 
DanClarke said:
I have a sony handycam kit complete. Not been used for years.
Battery is shot, but you can run it off the mains I should imagine.
Transport costs would be down to you.
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I was amazed when I got my machine out to find that the very old battery did charge! How long it would hold it is a different matter! It is a pity that the tuner is analogue as that renders it totally useless but then, as I haven't used it for donkeys years, I doubt I am going to start now!
 
Thank you the better half is on standby to get it. I’m hoping to be home in a couple of days and i’ll Get them transphered soon as possible.
 
Colthebrummie said:
This reminds me of a few years ago, my mother in law had a stack of home video cassettes but nothing to play them on. They were mostly of holidays, the long dead dog and her deceased husband. We took the lot to Jessops and paid over a hundred pounds to get them put onto DVD. There wasn't a decent 5 minutes video in the whole lot. Las time I do the silly old bat a favour.

Col
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Funny money the cheapest I found was a local firm wants £6.50 per tape per hour and they only work in hour time intervals. They just set it off and record for the length of the tape, there might be only 2 minutes of film footage on the tape but you get 1 hour film with 58min static. I’ve got 8 x 90min tapes and if they are filmed in long play that’s £19.50 a tape.

But they I went to see them the gear they were using wasn’t as good as my own setup. They just has there cameria plugged into a dvd recorder and recorded it straight to disk, and copied it on to pc from there but they wouldn’t give me there footage they would only supply a dvd not the raw capture.

Hence I asked on here, derwendolly has kindly sorted helped me out and hopefully i’ll Be transferring soon.
 
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