<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hi Andrew,</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thanks for checking and responding to my message, the "powers up" part sounds promising because the two camcorders I've tried both fail badly in that department (The LCD powers up on both, but buttons do nothing and no motor movement whatsoever).  </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I've got the other bits for doing the analogue to digital conversion so I'd prefer to try playing the tapes in a borrowed unit rather than going to a shop who'll probably want a couple hundred dollars for doing it. If you're willing to lend it to me for a few days, I'd be happy to get you a nice bottle of port or some other beverage(s) of your choice?</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I can come and pick it up and drop back off to you, once it's setup it shouldn't take very long as I don't think the tapes are full.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Please let me know if that suits.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thank you,</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mike</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div contenteditable="false" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><hr id="previousmessagehr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; user-select: none;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">From</strong>: Andrew Errington <erringtona@gmail.com><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sent</strong>: 21/02/2023 17:00<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">To</strong>: Christchurch Robotics <chchrobotics@lists.ourshack.com><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Subject</strong>: Re: [chbot] Borrow Video8 player for transcoding</span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div dir="auto" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hi Michael,<div dir="auto" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div dir="auto" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I have a Sharp Viewcam VL-E40X. Manual for a similar model here:</div><div dir="auto" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div dir="auto" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.manualslib.com/manual/489234/Sharp-Vl-E40s.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.manualslib.com/manual/489234/Sharp-Vl-E40s.html</a></div><div dir="auto" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div dir="auto" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I don't have any tapes, but the unit does have the logo "8" in a square box.</div><div dir="auto" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div dir="auto" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">It powers up from a mains adapter, and has the AV pack (page 38) with video out and mono audio. The video system is PAL (yes, be my PAL).</div><div dir="auto" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div dir="auto" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Andrew </div><div dir="auto" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-class="gmail_quote" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div dir="ltr" fr-original-class="gmail_attr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">On Tue, 21 Feb 2023, 16:37 GRAHAM CHRISTIE, <<a fr-original-style="" href="mailto:development.engineering@xtra.co.nz" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">development.engineering@xtra.co.nz</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote fr-original-class="gmail_quote" fr-original-style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(94, 53, 177);"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hi Michael</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Try Photo & Video in Merivale Mall</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I have good success from them in the past with old tech.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Regards</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Graham</div><blockquote fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 188, 212); border-color: rgb(0, 188, 212);" type="cite"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">On 21/02/2023 12:25 NZDT Michael, eDIY Software <<a fr-original-style="" href="mailto:mike@ediy.co.nz" rel="noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">mike@ediy.co.nz</a>> wrote:</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="font-family:arial;font-size:14px;" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;" style="box-sizing:border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;" style="box-sizing:border-box;">Hi all,</div><div fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;" style="box-sizing:border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;" style="box-sizing:border-box;">I'm looking to borrow a working player/camcorder for the Video8 / Hi8 video format for a few days.  <span fr-original-style="color:#414141;font-family:arial;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline!important;box-sizing:border-box;" id="m_3179457066355295217isPasted" style="color:#414141;font-family:arial;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline!important;box-sizing:border-box;">I've got 5 tapes with old family footage that I'd like to convert to digital movie files.  <a fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;text-decoration:underline;" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_mm_video_format" id="m_3179457066355295217isPasted" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_mm_video_format</a> shows what the tapes look like and some history.  </span></div><div fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;" style="box-sizing:border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;" style="box-sizing:border-box;"><span fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;" id="m_3179457066355295217isPasted" style="box-sizing:border-box;">Thank you,<br style="box-sizing:border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;"></span>Michael</div><div fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;" style="box-sizing:border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;" style="box-sizing:border-box;"><span fr-original-style="box-sizing:border-box;" style="box-sizing:border-box;"> </span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chchrobotics mailing list <a fr-original-style="" href="mailto:Chchrobotics@lists.ourshack.com" rel="noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chchrobotics@lists.ourshack.com</a><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/chchrobotics" rel="noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/chchrobotics</a><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mail Archives: <a fr-original-style="" href="http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/chchrobotics/" rel="noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/chchrobotics/</a><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Meetings usually 3rd Monday each month. See <a fr-original-style="" href="http://kiwibots.org" rel="noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://kiwibots.org</a> for venue, directions and dates.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">When replying, please edit your Subject line to reflect new subjects.</blockquote></div>_______________________________________________<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chchrobotics mailing list <a fr-original-style="" href="mailto:Chchrobotics@lists.ourshack.com" rel="noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chchrobotics@lists.ourshack.com</a><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/chchrobotics" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/chchrobotics</a><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mail Archives: <a fr-original-style="" href="http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/chchrobotics/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/chchrobotics/</a><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Meetings usually 3rd Monday each month. See <a fr-original-style="" href="http://kiwibots.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://kiwibots.org</a> for venue, directions and dates.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">When replying, please edit your Subject line to reflect new subjects.</blockquote></div></div>