Yikes. That makes zero sense. I had no idea about the FW drives. I just shut
down my mac
at night, often leaving the drived powered up. Could this be contributing to
the fairly high
failure rate of FW drives (3 of the 7 drives I've owned have failed. 0 of the 5
ATA drives
have failed. 0 of
Well I guess there must be some real potential problems with firewire for
people to talk
about it, but Ive personally never had any firewire problems with drives or
cameras, and I
pay no attention to when I am plugging them in, or what order things are
switched on.
I wouldnt leave your
I don't believe anyone's mentioned the VIDLED.
I swear by mine. Warm color + a diffusion gel, adjustable power, and a 90
minute battery charge
give me everything I need.
Handmade in USA and, reportedly, unbreakable.
http://vidled.com
joly
It's insane, because the common wisdom about the way to protect the
camera port and the way to protect drives conflicts. For cameras, yes,
connect with everything powered down is what some mfrs. have said. For
drives, it's turn everything on, then connect (and always unmount
before disconnnect,
So is the rule of thumb to connect all devices THEN power up. Can we connect a
DV cam to a
CPU already on, then power up the cam?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Firewire sucks. A client's HV20 just fell victim to a fried port.
Unless you have a
Firewire sucks. A client's HV20 just fell victim to a fried port.
Unless you have a dedicated firewire BUS (not port) with the ability
to turn its power on or off for each device, things will fry.
But on the camera/deck end, for DV and HDV, it's all we've got unless
you go with a tower and an
I LOVE LEDs. just make sure you get some CTO to compensate for the
color temp that tends to be cold, in which case, they're great to
balance with daylight. but it's soft and energy saving and usually
comes with a dimmer. aside from the on-board panels, DP Joaquín
Baca-Asay (DP of Thumbsucker)
Hi Markus,
No, the lowlife who stole my Canon Digital Rebel didn't return it, so
I need to buy a new digital camera, but that's for another list. :~)
If you're in the market for an LED light, I discovered that the DV
Estore (www.dvestore.com) in Washington state sells them for $299 plus
$8
