Location: Virginia Beach
Means of Contact: PM, UNITSninja@cox.net
Description: Canon Elura 65 mini-DV Camcorder
Canon Website Description
Actual Camera:
The Bad:
This camera has its good days and its bad days. It has two malfunctions that keep me from using it regularly.
Out of a day of shooting for roughly 6 hours this camera will for 30 minutes out of that 6 hours zoom in all by itself. It will be working just fine and maybe not even recording and it will just slowly start to zoom in all by itself. By moving towards the wide-angle mode the zoom will come back in and even stay still if you hold the slider in place. I don't know if this is a software problem or mechanical problem, but have found documentation online that mine is not the only one of its kind with this same problem. There may be a factory recall, but I never put forth the research. Started working at Panasonic... didn't need the Canon anymore.
Second problem is that this camera 98% of the time will not recognize DV tapes. Sometimes when I randomly pop a brand new DV tape into the camera it will record and playback just fine but any used tapes will not recognize. It just spits them back out. This may simply be an issue with the heads on the camera needing to be cleaned. I don't know. Like I said, I started working at Panasonic when this camera started giving me problems so I really had no desire to fix it.
Here is a link to the Canon website describing the exact problem and what to do to get it fixed. I do not know if there is a recall on the camera for this problem or what. From the little research that I did, I gathered that they are repairing the cameras free of charge. Just call the toll free number and inquire.
"Remove Cassette Error"
Video Recording system
2 rotary heads, helical scanning system DV system (Consumer digital system) Digital component recording
Audio Recording system
PCM digital sound: 16-bit (48 kHz/2 ch.), 12-bit (32 kHz/4 ch.)
Image Sensor
1/4.5-inch CCD, approx. 1,330,000 pixels. Effective pixels: Tape approx. 690,000 pixels; Card approx. 1,230,000 pixels
Tape Format
Videocassettes bearing the MiniDV mark
Tape Speed
SP: 0.74 ips (18.81 mm/s), LP: 0.49 ips (12.56 mm/s)
Maximum Recording Time (with an 80-min. cassette)
SP: 80 min., LP: 120 min.
Lens
f=3.5-56, f/1.8-3.3, 16x power zoom
Focusing System
TTL autofocus, manual focusing possible
Minimum Focusing Distance
3 ft. 3 3/8 in. (1 m), 3/8 in. (1 cm), on maximum wide angle
Frame Rate
1/2000 (1/250 in CARD CAMERA mode)
Minimum Illumination
1.8 lx (using the night mode)
Recommended Illumination
More than 100 lx
Viewfinder
0.33-inch TFT color, (approx. 113,000 pixels)
LCD Screen
2.5-inch TFT color, (approx. 123,000 pixels)
Microphone
Stereo electret condenser microphone
DV Terminal
Special 4-pin connector (IEEE1394 compliant)
Video Terminal
1 Vp-p/75 ohms unbalanced
S-video Terminal
1 Vp-p/75 ohms (Y signal), 0.286 Vp-p/75 ohms (C signal)
Audio Terminal
Audio input: -10 dBV/40 kohms or more. Audio output: -10dBV (47 Kohm load)/3 Kohms or less.
Microphone Terminal
Elura 70/Elura 65 only: ø3.5 mm stereo mini-jack, -57 dBV (with 600 ohm mic)/5 kohms or more
Operating Temperature range
32 - 104° F (0 - 40° C)
Dimensions
3.1 x 2.9 x 5.1 in. (78 x 74 x 130 mm) excluding protrusions
Weight (not including lens and battery pack)
approx. 1.1 lb. (500g)
Memory Card
Recording Media
SD Memory Card, MultiMediaCard
Image Format
Still image: JPEG (compression: Superfine / Fine / Normal), Movie: AVI (image data: Motion JPEG; audio data: WAVE (monaural))
File Format
Design rule for Camera File system (DCF), Exif 2.2 compliant, Digital Print Order Format (DPOF) compliant (only images marked for printing or transfer)
Price: Asking $100.00 but entertaining ANY offers.
