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October 7th, 2003, 11:38 AM
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Panasonic 80min tapes
Can i use 80min Panasonic tapes with canon xl1s.
another question is there any recomendation for using panasonic 60min tape (Datalive plus) or somthing like that.? is it good or bad. |
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October 7th, 2003, 11:57 AM
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Jarek,
You -can- use 80 minute tapes with the XL1s. But the general feeling is that it's just a touch riskier than the 60 min tapes due to a thinner tape material (to fit into the same size cassette). We literally have hundreds of posts here on tape. Do a Search to dig up more than you every wanted to know on the subject.
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October 7th, 2003, 12:02 PM
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I'm looking all over this forum. (its grate) but there is no specific explenation for this matter
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October 7th, 2003, 12:06 PM
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You should find plenty of tape information in this list.
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October 7th, 2003, 06:57 PM
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I use Panasonic tape without any problems. I usually use the 60 minute tapes rather than the 80 minute tapes for two reasons. First: The 60 minute tape are a lot lower cost and work fine for my shoots (rarely over 60 miutes without time to change tape). Second: as Ken stated, the 80 minute tapes are thinner base and thus would be a bit more prone to stretching or other mecahnical failure.
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October 8th, 2003, 11:58 AM
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I agree. There is nothing wrong with 80 minute tapes (I think Chris Hurd uses them) other than they are thinner and may be more prone to problems.
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October 16th, 2003, 03:24 PM
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We use 'em
We use the 80 min Panasonic tapes A LOT, and even worse, sometimes in LP mode...
We've used 6 boxes this year which is 30 tapes, and have not had any problems with them in any of our cams: 2 GL1's, 2 VX2K's, and 1 XL1s. (knock on wood) On an unrelated note, we've also started extensively 'recycling' used 60 minute tapes and have had only a handful of dropouts (where old program material came through on top of new material) out of 50 or 60 60-min tapes we've recycled... Those are 1-time recycles. Kyle www.lookmom.net |
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