PV GS120 Defective CCD?

[greymalkin]

Hello All,

For several years I have owned 2 Panasonic PV GS120 Camcorders, both of them were purchased used, but they never LOOKED the same. One always had very deep, rich colors and the other always looked sort of washed out and blue/greenish, like the red was missing. No amount of color correction seemed to get it even close to the quality of the other.

Looking at the cameras I don't know if there's really even any manual settings you can set to make it look this bad. So last night while doing some editing it hit me...perhaps one of the CCD's in the 2nd camera is bad and has always been that way!

I'm at work right now but I'll post a clip later to show the vast difference between these 2 cameras. If it is determined that one of the CCD's is bad (whichever picks up the red I assume) is there any advice on what can be done to attempt to recreate the missing colors (I know this sounds stupid even as I type it, but people have come up with some wild stuff here before that I thought was impossible!)

[edDV]

Do you observe this on both an analog and Firewire (IEEE-1394) transfer?

Shoot the same scene with both camcorders. If you swap playback tapes does the color error follow the tape?

[greymalkin]

edDV,

I always record with both cameras, then use the camera with the bad colors to transfer to my computer via firewire (the firewire on the one with the good colors doesn't work ). Playing the video back on my PC the one recorded with the "good" camcorder has good colors and the one recorded with the "bad" one always has a blue/green tint to it and color correction just makes it look like an old photo (like ones where some of the pigment has faded from the ink)...which leads me to believe I'm just not getting all the colors when recording.

I just got home and it's late so I'll unfortunately have to post the video samples up tomorrow!

[edDV]

edDV,

I always record with both cameras, then use the camera with the bad colors to transfer to my computer via firewire (the firewire on the one with the good colors doesn't work ). Playing the video back on my PC the one recorded with the "good" camcorder has good colors and the one recorded with the "bad" one always has a blue/green tint to it and color correction just makes it look like an old photo (like ones where some of the pigment has faded from the ink)...which leads me to believe I'm just not getting all the colors when recording.

I just got home and it's late so I'll unfortunately have to post the video samples up tomorrow!

OK, that indicates a faulty camera section but at least you have one good camcorder between them. My guess would be a loose internal connection but camcorders are difficult to fix.

[greymalkin]

yeah, I feel bad because I recorded video's for people with both cameras and switching from one to the other there is a noticeable difference!

ahhhh If I could just go back in time with dual hv30's .