Hello,(posted 9007 days ago)During a recent documentary shoot with an XL-1 we've had a major problem (lost 20 minutes of good footage) with dropout on two seperate occasions. Both occured when we moved from a colder climate to a warmer one within an hour, and the temperature changed 10-15 degrees (San Francisco is a miserable city for shooting; humidity changes frequently too).
We think it is condensation, but are unsure (the warning never came up and I maintain the camera cleaning in a faithful and regular manner). Has anyone else noticed such a problem? Is the XL-1 particular sensitive to temperature changes or is a MiniDV related problem? We were shooting on Maxwell tapes.
If so, how can we avoid this problem? Documentary work demands quick changes; waiting two hours, as the manual suggests, with the deck open often is impossible as time is of the essence.
Cheers,
Todd