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Article #367Re: Any Sony CD Guru out there?
From: Harry Lavo
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:18
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:18
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"Tristan" <born2wyn@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:hGXAe.38764$oJ.4003@news-server.bigpond.net.au... >> About two years ago I listed on eBay a video unit that consisted of a top >> quality (circa '82) Panasonic portable video camera, along with a two > piece >> portable video recorder. Picture quality is superb; low light sensitiviy >> was as good as any Panasonic has ever made. Build quality was >> excellent...this was top of the line gear that together retailed for >> close >> to $2500 in 1980. It didn't have autofocus, but otherwise met and > exceeded >> in picture and sound quality any tape I have seen made in the last ten >> years. I put it on eBay at $20, and with no reserve, in a ten-day > auction. >> I described it well (much more detailed than here). I felt sure some >> aspiring film student or amateur videographer would grab it. I didn't >> get > a >> single bid. >> >> But I won't "throw it". I simply can't bring myself to destroy perfectly >> good, superbly built gear. > > Couldn't agree more, Dad bought one in early-83 and it's stored away (with > tuner). The picture quality from the tapes from that period is superb > (much > better than some 8mm analogue footage from the 90s). Unfortunately it has > a > few mechanical problems - nothing that couldn't be fixed I suppose. > Not only that...they are easy to fix. I've had two repairmen swoon over the thing when I've taken it in for an alignment and tune-up. The jist of their swoon is "they sure don't build em like that anymore". "And when something does go wrong, we have to replace the whole thing...not like this baby."
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