Brian Ford
June 7th, 2007, 07:44 PM
After waiting for 6 weeks to get my XHA1 back from the canon repair depot to fix my broken manual focus ring, I get my camera back and try taking some footage.. Everything is fine until I try to play back the footage and it doesn't work properly. Its plays for about 1 second then pauses for a second or two then plays for another second, etc... I've tried all kinds of things including playing back tapes I had recorded before sending my camera in for repair. nothing works..
In the process I notice a whole bunch of things that I don't recognize and it leads me to believe the canon technician loaded the XHG1 firmware onto my A1. Here's a list of the following things that make me think this is what happened. The LCD on the side says TC-(INOUT) and HD-SDI.. In the menus I now have three options "GENLCK ADJUST", "SDI OUTPUT" and "SDI SPEC" under the signal setup menu. The manual says these are XHG1 only, but I can't remember if they were there on my A1 before.. Can someone check if their A1 has these options?
It would be GREAT if I could now actually use the BNC out as SDI but considering I can't even record to tape and playback it leads me to believe there are more significant differences between the A1 and G1 than just a couple of missing in/out connectors..
Looks like I'll have to call canon and send it back in again! This SUCKS! I have to pay for shipping again!
Anyone have any suggestions?
Is there anyway to see what version of firmware is loaded? Oh, also when I connect via firewire to the computer it shows up as Canon XHG1.. I can't remember if that was normal or not..
In the process I notice a whole bunch of things that I don't recognize and it leads me to believe the canon technician loaded the XHG1 firmware onto my A1. Here's a list of the following things that make me think this is what happened. The LCD on the side says TC-(INOUT) and HD-SDI.. In the menus I now have three options "GENLCK ADJUST", "SDI OUTPUT" and "SDI SPEC" under the signal setup menu. The manual says these are XHG1 only, but I can't remember if they were there on my A1 before.. Can someone check if their A1 has these options?
It would be GREAT if I could now actually use the BNC out as SDI but considering I can't even record to tape and playback it leads me to believe there are more significant differences between the A1 and G1 than just a couple of missing in/out connectors..
Looks like I'll have to call canon and send it back in again! This SUCKS! I have to pay for shipping again!
Anyone have any suggestions?
Is there anyway to see what version of firmware is loaded? Oh, also when I connect via firewire to the computer it shows up as Canon XHG1.. I can't remember if that was normal or not..