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Alvise Tedesco
March 6th, 2007, 12:04 PM
I own a SWIT and I am able to focus with it just fine.

Via (sd) y/c or (hd) components?

Charles Hurley
March 8th, 2007, 01:24 AM
I tested the Swit and the Marshal side by side but I'll admit I never even considered the s-video input on the swit. I plugged the Marshal in s-video because they have another monitor that's 500 less without HD inputs, it's the same lcd with a different scaler. The s-video on the Marshall was worse than component on the swit, it was almost frighteningly bad. In a head to head the Marshal wins easily, nobody will tell you otherwise. Good Luck, Charles.

Meryem Ersoz
March 9th, 2007, 03:27 PM
so, can someone post a link to what constitutes the "right connectors" for the XH A1 to Marshall monitor connectors? i just bought a Marshall and the XH A1 component cable is not compatible, and the boys at radio shack had no answers, so can someone tell me how they got these two units to play together? please and thank you....

Jay Fisk
March 10th, 2007, 01:49 AM
Assuming that you have the supplied Canon DTC-1000 cable with the latching sub-D to triple RCA type component connectors, you just need three RCA (F) to BNC (M) adaptors.

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/webtronics_1938_23685448

As it's not really the best practice to use adaptors on anything critical, my solution was to chop the canon cable down to a two foot cable terminated with three new BNC's for the component inputs on the Marshall. Less cable = less weight

It would have been nice if Canon had terminated the cable with BNC's and provided RCA adaptors. Would have been a more pro solution.

Meryem Ersoz
March 10th, 2007, 08:25 AM
thank you, jay. that's exactly what i needed. the pictures help. now i hope i can find these locally(not so easy around here, without a trip to the big city), so i can use the monitor for a shoot on tuesday.

modding the cable as you suggested seems to be the best solution.

Bill Busby
March 10th, 2007, 02:21 PM
Does anyone know what price Canon sells the DTC-1000 component cable for? Or if the camera side connector is some proprietary part? It would be nice to have a short modified cable for situations such as this as well as keeping the original cable.

Bill

Tony Tibbetts
March 10th, 2007, 02:30 PM
I'm not sure what people are doing to get such horrible results with the SWIT, but I have had no such problems. Hooked up to the components out of my XH-A1 it looks great. As far as power consumption goes I had a friend use it the other day and only had to replace the Canon 950 battery once during a full day of shooting. There were no reports of flickering. Also he was using a 35mm adapter and was able to focus using only an s-video connection.

So it seems to me that some of you got faulty monitors or it's an issue of user error.

Meryem Ersoz
March 10th, 2007, 03:06 PM
i don't know if this helps, but i got the adapters and, using the XH A1 and component in, i'm getting the annoying flickering. i hooked an XL2 up via S-video, and the monitor is fine, so i'm thinking that the RCA to BNC adapters are the weak link. these adapters don't seem to provide a very tight connection, so i'm thinking that Jay's suggested cable mod is a good idea and am going to look into it.

when it's not flickering, the picture is very good. i'm sure when i get this figured out, i'm going to love having this....

Meryem Ersoz
March 10th, 2007, 03:15 PM
good question, bill. i'm going to call them monday and find out--if i can get another cable, then i'll feel safer proceeding with modifying the original.

if anyone else wants to try, canon's direct sales number is 800-385-2155

Meryem Ersoz
March 12th, 2007, 12:18 PM
canon does not have these available through their accessories department. "call back in a month" is what i was told. they did, however, steer me to this site, where it is available as an accessory.

http://www.shop-canon.com.hk

plug DTC-1000 into the search engine, and you'll see the cable available for $280 HK (hong kong dollars...)

$1US = $7.8147HK, according to the yahoo currency converter....

so the cable is available for about $36 US dollars, if my math is correct (and it rarely is!)

so anyone wanting to mod their cable--or anyone wanting both a long and a short cable-- might want to buy one of these first.

Meryem Ersoz
March 12th, 2007, 12:23 PM
the fine print, once you go to the shopping cart....

"Our on-line ordering service extends only to Hong Kong residents, and we will only accept orders from, and will only deliver goods to, persons who are resident in the Hong Kong SAR"

so i guess we're SOL on the cable, at least in the US....

Bill Busby
March 12th, 2007, 12:52 PM
Thanks for the info. I can't imagine it being exclusive to overseas, at least for very long. And if it IS around $36, that's a lot less than what I thought it might be. Time will tell.

Bill

Bill Busby
March 12th, 2007, 01:01 PM
I found this in the States. Says it's in stock.

http://www.avalive.biz/Canon/0976B001AA-H1/23759/productDetail.php