Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️arg. I got a video camera at the electronics fair, and I'm gonna need to pay more than the camera costs to get the fucking manual.
that should be illegal
This is a JVC GX-J700U color video camera, from approximately 1984.
It's got "excellent picture quality", 360 lines resolution!
It's got genlock, color bars, and built in character generator.
(It's also got a mic and viewfinder, but I pulled them off for this picture)
It's got "excellent picture quality", 360 lines resolution!
It's got genlock, color bars, and built in character generator.
(It's also got a mic and viewfinder, but I pulled them off for this picture)
I don't know why it's outputting B&W. this is supposedly a color camera.
I opened it up to check for anything obviously wrong. Nope. I'd need to actually buy the service manual to have any idea how to fix this.
vxo
@foone there is also a small external panel for the color registration adjustments (yes! That drifts!!)
You'd shoot a registration test pattern and use the pots to adjust the size of the image sent by the red and blue tubes. Centering is automatic I believe
Oops, I forgot to add the alt text. This is a small panel with screw head pots and toggle switches, R-H, R-V, B-H, B-V, and a few toggle switches to set which channels are sent to the test out jack.
@foone my favorite is the diagonal 'this is where I go' stripe across each card
In theory, somewhere out there, someone must have module extender cards to let you test on the cards with them popped out the side
Solarbird 
@moira it mostly works too!!