Moogyboy
Contributor
You do remember, right? 
The Panasonic miniDV thing I won on eBay a few months ago for crazy cheap? Well, I totally messed it up, you see, within a week of getting it in my hands. I wanted to ask if any of you nice people have had problems with your cams like this, and to advise me on how to correct it.
Here's what it's doing: when the ambient light level gets below a certain level, the picture becomes extremely washed out, overexposed as it were, and the whole picture simultaneously goes dark as if someone turned down a brightness control to compensate for the overexposure. It ends up looking terrible. Unusable.
How it happened: It started doing this immediately after I stupidly experimented with video feedback on my parents' TV. But video feedback isn't supposed to hurt the camera, so far as I can tell.
Admitting it's probably my own darn fault, can any of the more repair-technical SB members here shed any light on what exactly happened and whether/how I can get it fixed? I rather would like to move forward, think about a housing and all that jazz, and turn my conversation to scuba related stuff again.
thanks, and cheers
Billy S.
The Panasonic miniDV thing I won on eBay a few months ago for crazy cheap? Well, I totally messed it up, you see, within a week of getting it in my hands. I wanted to ask if any of you nice people have had problems with your cams like this, and to advise me on how to correct it.Here's what it's doing: when the ambient light level gets below a certain level, the picture becomes extremely washed out, overexposed as it were, and the whole picture simultaneously goes dark as if someone turned down a brightness control to compensate for the overexposure. It ends up looking terrible. Unusable.
How it happened: It started doing this immediately after I stupidly experimented with video feedback on my parents' TV. But video feedback isn't supposed to hurt the camera, so far as I can tell.
Admitting it's probably my own darn fault, can any of the more repair-technical SB members here shed any light on what exactly happened and whether/how I can get it fixed? I rather would like to move forward, think about a housing and all that jazz, and turn my conversation to scuba related stuff again.
thanks, and cheers
Billy S.
