I got to see Neil yesterday, get his IBM ThinkPad T60 up and running with Linux Mint for him, and play around with his vintage camcorder! Neil's channel: / cogsinister100
I have one I managed to get it off eBay a couple of years ago for £50 came with its original JVC travel case, all manuals, two lens mounts, two microphones, two types of battery chargers (one which powers the camera from the mains) the only thing which is missing annoyingly is the little shoulder mount bracket what sat underneath it.
Hi there We’ve just found one of these in our attic and are looking for instruction manual. Any chance you’d send pics from your one? Apologies for weird ask, my son Oisín is ten and he’s obsessed with it. We can’t open the cassette door! Many thanks Angie Angiesoi@hotmail.com
I vaguely recall seeing one of those in a St Albans (Hertfordshire, England) shop window...it must have been January 1985. Camcorders were quite a new thing then, and the price was something like £1,000, maybe a bit more.
i used to have a Panasonic NV-G220 that my granddad gave me like back in 2006 i think camera took amazing video just sucks that it got chucked out wish i still had it
Probably thé greatest camcorder ever to see the light of day. Never had the pleasure owning one. What bothers me was it the camcorder you shot this video with that had a tracking issue?
It's a portable television studio! (And if I got that line wrong I'll be really embarrassed because I saw back to the future like a billion times as a kid :P)
Hi, So I have this exact camera all the asessories for it includes the case. I recently bough the cassette tape put it in an view finder works all functional expect for the record button. Won't seem to record any ideas what I could do at home before I try an find someone to fix it?
Do you know the proper procedure for recording? After you turn the camera on and put in a tape, you hold the REC button (the button next to the Play button), press the Play button while holding the REC button, and that puts it into standby mode. Then you can press the record start button to start recording.
Hi there, we’ve just discovered one of these gorgeous video cameras in our attic but have no instruction manual. Weird I know but do you think Neil would have one he’d let us have a look at? Would love to be out in touch with him or anyone else on this thread who might be able to help us out. A tape is jammed and we can’t open the cassette holder. Thanks a million Angie and Oisín (age 9) in Dublin
I am sorry to say that Neil passed away a few weeks after this video was made. The manual is available online. Search "jvc gr-c1 manual", and it's the very first link.
Nice. :P I lost the bet of getting this up last night, but only because my laptop took 2 hours to render it! Would you have an aversion to letting me borrow this for a while some day so I could make a full-length review of it?
Awesome. That's no problem - I didn't have a way to safely transport it anyway. I have a padded bag meant for a full-size VHS camcorder that will fit it perfectly, which I'll bring next time.
beautiful Marty Mc Fly's Camcorder!!! , the portable studio
This is the same model used in Back to The Future. This camera sells for over $100+ consistently on eBay.
Yes, I mentioned that in the video.
*****
I've wanted one for years but the price tag has kept me from getting one.
hahah you should look at it today, its not even that good lol.
New friend here. Keep up the good work
I have one I managed to get it off eBay a couple of years ago for £50 came with its original JVC travel case, all manuals, two lens mounts, two microphones, two types of battery chargers (one which powers the camera from the mains) the only thing which is missing annoyingly is the little shoulder mount bracket what sat underneath it.
Hi there
We’ve just found one of these in our attic and are looking for instruction manual. Any chance you’d send pics from your one? Apologies for weird ask, my son Oisín is ten and he’s obsessed with it. We can’t open the cassette door!
Many thanks
Angie
Angiesoi@hotmail.com
Yep that did the job! Holding record an play. I have a fully functional jvc gr-c1
Love this, your friend Neil sounds a bit like the wonderful Frank Sidebottom
I vaguely recall seeing one of those in a St Albans (Hertfordshire, England) shop window...it must have been January 1985. Camcorders were quite a new thing then, and the price was something like £1,000, maybe a bit more.
It was big because back then vhs camcorders had to be plugged into a VCR
The JVC was the first that had a VCR in it.
@@BeyondBaito Indeed, it was a big thing in those days. Things have advanced a long way since then.
GREAT CAMCORDER !!!
i used to have a Panasonic NV-G220 that my granddad gave me like back in 2006 i think camera took amazing video just sucks that it got chucked out wish i still had it
Haha, the clips look like watching a home movie from the 80s. LOL so weird.
Probably thé greatest camcorder ever to see the light of day. Never had the pleasure owning one. What bothers me was it the camcorder you shot this video with that had a tracking issue?
It's a portable television studio! (And if I got that line wrong I'll be really embarrassed because I saw back to the future like a billion times as a kid :P)
thats the strangerthings camera
i first seen this camcorder on bttf part 1
Hi,
So I have this exact camera all the asessories for it includes the case. I recently bough the cassette tape put it in an view finder works all functional expect for the record button. Won't seem to record any ideas what I could do at home before I try an find someone to fix it?
Do you know the proper procedure for recording? After you turn the camera on and put in a tape, you hold the REC button (the button next to the Play button), press the Play button while holding the REC button, and that puts it into standby mode. Then you can press the record start button to start recording.
Yeah, you gotta press rec+play at the same time and then press the thumb button to start/pause recording.
I just subscribed to Neil's Channel.
funny now how much better the quality is on your phone video.
awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
great
Hi there, we’ve just discovered one of these gorgeous video cameras in our attic but have no instruction manual. Weird I know but do you think Neil would have one he’d let us have a look at? Would love to be out in touch with him or anyone else on this thread who might be able to help us out. A tape is jammed and we can’t open the cassette holder.
Thanks a million
Angie and Oisín (age 9) in Dublin
I am sorry to say that Neil passed away a few weeks after this video was made.
The manual is available online. Search "jvc gr-c1 manual", and it's the very first link.
themaritimegirl that’s so sad. Thanks a million for getting back to us. 🙏
woah looks like Critical/Penguinz0 has a second account
Reminds me of nelsons videos.
This is not the same camera used in back to the future. They used a JVC GR-C1 not the GR-C1U.
U denotes the North American NTSC version. The PAL version is called the GR-C1E.
themaritimegirl it’s still not the same model in the movie. They used GR-C1 which cost $1000 on eBay if you can find one.
@@michaelcamehome3647 its still the same model lineup
that looks a interesting channel so will sub him
How much did these sell new for?
$1600 USD - about $3800 USD in today's money.
BTTF Camcorder
I have a similar camera. I want to digitize our home videos. What components do I need to connect the camcorder to capture on my laptop?
I have one on my channel
First.
Nice. :P I lost the bet of getting this up last night, but only because my laptop took 2 hours to render it!
Would you have an aversion to letting me borrow this for a while some day so I could make a full-length review of it?
Sure no problem, you should have asked last night, you could have taken it with you.
Awesome. That's no problem - I didn't have a way to safely transport it anyway. I have a padded bag meant for a full-size VHS camcorder that will fit it perfectly, which I'll bring next time.