OT - Night Shot Shot?

Jim H wrote on 6/25/2006, 8:13 PM

Not long ago I pulled out my Sony HD HC1 to shoot and couldn't figure out why the veiw finder was white. It didn't take long to discover that the night shot switch must have turned on by mistake. But before I realized that it was a hard switch, I surfed through several menus looking for the darn off key. I'm not sure if I changed some setting in frustration of worse. Now all my video seems washed out and over exposed. I read in the manual that using the night shot during the day could "lead to malfunction." Does that mean instant death of the CMOS??? of did I screw up some setting that I can no longer find in the deep menu? I checked the obvious settings but all seems set to normal.

Any HC1 owners out there? Is there a "default all" options I'm missing? Or could I have fried the CMOS by accidently hitting the night shot switch during the day? I didn't have the camera on for more than a minute but I'm starting to worry.

Comments

apit34356 wrote on 6/25/2006, 11:39 PM

Jim_H, the CMOS is mostly likely to be NOT damaged unless exposed directly to the sun or other high energy source where the aperture was locked open for a long peroid of time. THE viewfinder can be damaged, if the white screen remained on over a couple of hours( this varies widely).

Try resetting the camera, remove all batteries as shown in manual, re-install batteries, manual reset.

I once has a similiar problem, but the camera was still in macro mode and was "way" out of focus, aperture fully open, in FL sunny day; not sure how the TSA in Tampa managed it,( must been the second time dropping it to the floor to remove the tape), but I though for a moment I fried the CCDs.

Laurence wrote on 6/26/2006, 8:45 AM

sounds like you hit the backlight button by mistake.