I have a 3 yr old GL2 that is driving me nuts with sporadic bouts of horizontal ‘banding’ and interlacing. This situation only happens when I turn on the camera and begin to record a scene. It doesn’t happen during the middle of recording a scene, only at the beginning of a scene. When I play back the tape, what I see is ten horizontal bands across the screen, and the new video scene can be seen in every other band (5 in all), while the last image I shot is interlaced in the other 5 bands. This effect will usually clear up in 15 to 30 seconds of footage.

I’ve had the camera in for repairs 4 times in the past year, and nothing has fixed the problem. They’ve replaced the recording drum and head assembly, they’ve reprogrammed the software loaded on the video processor chip, and they’ve cleaned and recalibrated everything. The only thing they haven’t done is replace the processor chip itself. One thing to mention; I only use Sony premium DV tapes in this camera.

I’m curious if there are any GL2 users on this forum who have experienced the same problem and what was done to fix it.

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That is one of your video heads (you have two).

I wonder what repairs have been done and if they were done properly?

I am not a GL2 owner.







Rich

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