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Old 06-01-2006, 17:20
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Can you buy seperate chargers for them (for charging in the house, not the car)? Say if you wanted to use the camcorder on the mains, but you need to charge your batteries at the same time, or you wanted to charge 2 batteries at the same time.

Can you use metal mini DV cassettes? I had a Sony camcorder about 10 years ago and it said not to use metal cassettes in it. It doesn't say anything like that in this manual though.

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Old 06-01-2006, 22:42
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Yes you can buy chargers that run off the mains and have the capability to charge two batteries at the same time. One I've seen for the Mini DV range Batteries is also a quick charger that charges the batteries faster then the standard charger and can charge two batteries at the same time. I don't think its too cheap though, somewhere in the region of a hundred notes.
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Old 06-01-2006, 23:27
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Oh, i won't bother with that then. Thanks.
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Old 07-01-2006, 10:49
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There are cheaper ones I was just saying there is a special fast charger out there to use with some extra capacity batteries you can buy and it can charge them in a about 20 minutes. You can buy a standard charger that'll charge a battery in about an hour to an hour and a half. For me I find the fast charger to be ideal. If I'm out and about and the battery goes flat I can put it on charge either from a mains source or car and give it a quick top up to keep me going.
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Old 07-01-2006, 15:39
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You should be able to get third party batteries and chargers cheaply. Have a look on Ebay.
I got some batteries for my Canon camcorder and a charger for a few quid.
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Old 09-01-2006, 12:49
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In answer to your second question, I believe that ALL DV tapes are metal (evaporated - apart from a specific professional format that is metal particle).

Good description at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDV

I seem to recall that some (more expensive) Hi-8 tapes were metal, and I would guess that the warning you saw was in relation to a regular 8-mm deck rather than Hi8.
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Old 09-01-2006, 16:46
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Thanks for the replies everyone.
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Old 09-01-2006, 17:47
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Originally Posted by RonW
In answer to your second question, I believe that ALL DV tapes are metal (evaporated - apart from a specific professional format that is metal particle).
The tapes are made of plastic (being a pedant). The magnetic media (metal oxide) is then deposited onto the plastic by evaporation. Metal particle tape is produced similarly, but pure metal (not an oxide).

This is similar to audio casettes, where there was Iron Oxide deposited onto the plastic tape. Other types were Chromiium Oxide (for Chrome tapes), and then pure metals (not oxides) for metals type tapes.
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Old 27-01-2006, 15:30
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The battery is flat, so i attached the camcorder to the AC adapter. I got the warning 'Use lithium battery'. Does this mean you have to use the battery as well as the AC adapter? For my old 8mm camcorder, it said not to have the battery in when using the adapter, as it damaged the battery.
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Old 27-01-2006, 16:08
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What kind of universal adapter do you get for the AC adapter to use in Australia?
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