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maybe, if i see one not too expensive but it's not high on my list. the other i'm rmore interested in is the GR-S99 but it seems not very common at all. as the 505 btw, i never see one for sale in france except the user manual and don't seems to show up quite often even on ebay.

@@Whakamescope same for American eBay. in 2022 I remember purchasing 3 units, one of who I gave to a VHS friend of mine. One works perfectly (records audio and video perfectly and plays back) surprisingly so, and the other one I have still needs the audio board recapped because it emits a strange buzzing noise for anything it records.

@@Whakamescope As for the GR-S99, thats another item I've kind of always wanted too since I first discovered it 3 years ago

@@CycloneCordVHS believe me or not, but it looks the fact you asked me decided someone to put one for sale right today, less than 30 min ago on my local favorite second hand sell site :D i didn't even search for it, i just use "camcorder" keyword to get wide choice. but not really cheap 50€ + ship, so i don't know... i'll have to think about, as always it can be a repair success or a fail...

glad you found something that looks promising. i don't know this paricular model but my advice is if you can find someone who can replace capacitors, it'll worth it specially if it's still working correctly now. if you plan to keep it on a long term, i think it might be a good idea. and even if you plan to sell at some point, a restored unit is a great argument :)

@@Whakamescope Yes, that's a very good bit of advice. I should have it in a few days, and if the cosmetic condition is good with no significant capacitor problems, I'll see if I can find a technician near me. If the capacitors haven't gone bad yet, they surely will!

exactly, as weird as it may sound, i enjoyed this one for what it is. even if i have absolutely no idea who they are, (but as i speak french there's a bit less mystery :)) but maybe the guy who've filmed is the person i've buyed the FX700e, or his son.

i'll need to do another one, the underexposure don't really do justice. but sure, i love it :)

@@Whakamescope That would be great to see! If I may ask, did this camera work normally when you got it, or did it need recapping? I'd love an old Sony Hi8 camcorders, but the bad capacitors have scared me away from the V800E, TR2000E or FX700E. Do you know if the VX1E also suffers from leaky capacitors? Thank you very much! I really like your channel. :)

@@matthewbuick373 this one was still working, and believe it or not, with all smd aluminum capacitors going bad. by going bad, i mean they all showed high esr, or close to not react at testing. i don't remember if some of them showed leakage evidence, i would say yes, but nothing dramatical. i replaced them of course, but really, was still working fine. but this one is one of the latest produced. i buyed another one, an early one, and this wasn't the same story at all. i got it back, but it still have a defective audio channel and record audio in mono, but still capable of stereo playback. and it also got issue with manual focus, and this was due to leakage of the big thru hole capacitor in the camera section, had corroded several components joints, so cleaning and resoldering fixed this issue. but for the bad audio channel... for the moment, i didn't get the cause.

@@Whakamescope Interesting! I'm glad to hear you repaired these cameras as best as possible and gave them a new life. It's a shame that even Sony's pro line camcorder suffers from these faulty capacitors. I have no electronics repair experience, so I will stick to the later Sony camcorders which don't seem to suffer from this issue to the same degree. I'm currently searching for the very rare Sony CCD TRV300E (1998) which has full manual exposure controls like the VX1E but also an LCD screen. Most unusual! Best of luck with this channel, it's very fun to watch, and I love what it stands for! :)

@@matthewbuick373 thanks :) the VX1 is still consumer grade anyway, but at the time nobody could know how capacitors would age... now we know, for sure. but i really won't be surprise if the real pro range (UVW/EVW family) also suffer from that. smd aluminium capacitors is a crappy design. even in more modern hardware they don't age particulary well.

yep, onboard mic. (if i say nothing in description it's stock setup) the mic preamp is not very good on this one, lot of hiss, but the mic itself is not too bad.

i love what's good in both format, but i admit i tend to prefer SVHS over Hi8. but not only JVC, i also have some panasonic. i wanted the VX1 because it's a very unique piece of history as it's the very first consumer grade 3 CCD camcorder. i also have a V800 which mostly work (it can record without issues, but have playback issue), and a totally wasted V600. maybe i'll pick some others models in future, as the FX700 for exemple :)

@@Whakamescope Totally understood. I'd recommend a CCD-TR75E for at least one of your future picks. Personally that's my favorite device and I also have a V800 (really a CCD-V801) in the same condition you mentioned yours was in. I'm sorry to hear about your V600. Are you saying it doesn't work post-repair? I'd also recommend a TR705 maybe even a TR805. Now that I think about it, TR705 is mid-tier compared to the TR75 and TR805. In America the TR805 is called TR101 and called TR900 over in Japan who made a special edition of the model with a color viewfinder called TR1000 which I plan on buying soon if able

@@CycloneCordVHS i don't think i'm gonna go with TR series. the FX700 would be an exception as i really love the way it look. something like dolphin/submarine look with its roundy shape, i really enjoy looking at it. but if i continue to grow sony collection, i'll probabely go for a V5/6000 or something in this kind. for the V600 yes, it was my first buy, and capacitors are not always the solution to all. this one had serious servo issues. maybe it's a consequence of capacitors, but i didn't see any obvious corrosive attack, but sometimes corrosion can occur in inner layers while all look right at the surface... so i gived up on this one, i desoldered all capacitors i had replaced and keep it for spare. and it helped bringing the V800 to life by giving its power board and camera DC-DC converter. i also forgot to say the V800 also have some servo issue, when cold it always think there's a tape inside... the mode switch is not the culprit, and i checked all traces/resistors between the boards who hold all the sensors/switch to the servo IC, and all check ok... so i really begin to think the IC is somewhat flaky. the same for the playback issue, the DOC doesn't work correctly and picture is totally trashed in pause. like when a video head is broken. everything in the DOC circuitry check good, only the video IC remain...

hope you'll find someone who accept to deal with our good old leaky friends...

@@Whakamescope I heard that thing has over 200 leaky caps, is that true? Or is there less than that

@@CycloneCordVHS oh no, it's far less than that. this one use surface mount capacitors on hi-fi board and camera section. other than that are thru hole and with few exceptions, they don't need to be all replaced. but the total count surface mount + thru hole maybe it's close to 100. the worst i've worked on was the S90S, this one really need to have more than 100 capacitors to be replaced...

yep, jvc did a pretty nice job with videomovie of this era (even if not hi-fi in my opinion). and it's a bit sad they didn't keep this kind of versatile design very long.

if you plan to buy one, be careful as the 90S was very specific for french market. the last S stand for secam, not stereo. meaning vhs record colour in secam standard. svhs is of course pal, but it has a built in switchable pal > secam transcoder. and of course, beware of capacitors... those can be very very tricky to restore due to a hybrid IC that has 6 capacitors on it and it's not easy to work on. if you've any info about a "S90" i'd be very curious :) i plan to do some outdoor footage once i get a battery, and i'll make some comparison with the original microphone and another jvc stereo mic, the M-212 from early 80's.

​@@Whakamescope there's a plain VHS-C version of this camcorder I keep forgetting about called GR-80S which is another red videomovie, so its basically a GR60 with a stereo mic. Mind you the GR-80S is also stereo like the GR-S90S. I personally would love to have the GR-80S at least as a collectors item but I can never find it on the American eBay.

@@CycloneCordVHS yeah, i know the 80S, i restored one recently. you'll find it more easily on ebay france, as it's also a french market model. i'm collecting most of the late 80's early 90's videomovie. i'll do a short video on my little collection if your're interested in (i guess yes :D)

@@Whakamescope Interested for sure. I tend to aim more towards stereo units from that era, late 80's to about 1995 or so