Anyone have a cheap source for these?

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
11/27/2019 at 22:33 • Filed to: None

Yeah, it’s an archaic piece of technology, but when you need it, you need it. For those who don’t know what it is, it’s an adapter that lets you play VHS-C tapes, from a camcorder, in standard VHS decks. Now that I finally found my Mini DV and Digital8 camcorders, I was thinking of going back into doing video conversions as a side gig. But I’m not ready to pay $35- 40 for one of these adapters. In addition, I have a co-worker that wants one in order to view videos of his late son, and I said that I would keep an eye out for one for him.

In all the years I’ve been digging around at the Goodwill Outlet I’m surprised that I haven’t been able to find one; plenty of camcorders, sure, but no adapters.

DISCUSSION (8)

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
11/27/2019 at 22:57

I’ve got two reels of EIAJ video tape I think my dad recorded sometime in the 70s. I’d love to see what’s on them but transfers are a bit expensive and a working machine is extremely rare at this point.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > MiniGTI - now with XJ6
11/27/2019 at 23:04

I know what you mean. I’d love to see all of those 8mm films my late father recorded in the early ‘70s, but I don’t have the equipment to convert those.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
11/27/2019 at 23:52

I actually do have a projector that does both regular 8mm and Super8. I transferred a bunch of my grandmother’s films from the 60s years ago with a miniDV. Luckily it had a preset that ran and half frame rate with long exposures so that solved the flicker problem pretty well. I haven’t tried with my DSLR which I think has custom frame rates with a little hacking.

I might have a little time over Christmas if you want to send me a film or two.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > MiniGTI - now with XJ6
11/28/2019 at 00:01

Thanks for the offer. The films and projector are 1,800 miles away at my parent’s place in SoCal. I might have to check into that mode you mentioned on the mini DV camcorder. If my Sony has that I might be able to do the transfer myself, perhaps the next time I'm back home.

kanadanmajava1 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
11/28/2019 at 04:37

I think I used to have one of these at my parent’s place. I have no idea if it still exists somewhere.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
11/28/2019 at 07:29

On my mid 2000s vintage cheapie Canon it’s called “fireworks” I think

MM54 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
11/28/2019 at 07:35

Sadly I do not, I didn’t know these were even a thing. I used to run the playback out from my digital8 camera into the input of a VCR and copy to vhs that way on the rare occasion I needed/wanted something off the little tapes .

punkgoose17 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
11/28/2019 at 08:11

ebay looks best at $30 each