There has certainly been a lot of changes to the website here since the last blog post. I combed through the entire back and frontend and re-did a lot of things. It’s all more organized in the back, and things should be more consistent looking up front. It took quite a bit of doing, and during the process I kicked the website totally offline for about 2 hours, and at the time, I had feared that I would have to start over. Thankfully, I discovered I just moved a folder by accident. Turns out, that’s bad! Don’t move critical folders in wordpress, lol.
I added tutorials for Changing the Belts and Servicing the Cassette Mechanism. Both got some updated pictures, and a bit of re-wording from the original posts I made a while ago. I know they don’t look like much, but those “You Will Need” intro photos take AGES to get right. And my lights are not great so that doesn’t help.
I also added Belt Kits to the shop, as well as a Belt / IR Filter Bundle that’ll save you a few bucks. I was ordering belts for some other things, and figured I should add some PXL sizes to my order to have in the shop. They’ll be up on eBay soon, but c’mon. Don’t order from eBay, their fees eat me alive and they lie about the actual costs. They say it’s 13.25% but it’s actually closer to 20% on most items if you do the full calculation yourself, maybe I’ll outline an example one day. Also fun fact, that 13.25% is calculated on the item cost + tax. That’s right. I pay a percentage of my fee based on the tax you pay. I’m charged a fee for your fee. Ridiculous. Anyways on to fun things…
I bought a PXL TV! I’ve wanted one for a while now and I just paid for one on eBay. No photos on that because, well I don’t have it. The eBay pictures indicate that it should be pretty much mint, which should result in some excellent pictures for the website here. And as far as accessories, that finishes it! I’ve got all the stuff, I just don’t have all the packaging, boxes, and inserts. Which, I am working on. Getting a box for either one of the camera packages is pretty easy, they’re just pricey. But I’ve already saved quite a few decent pictures from ebay listings so that’ll have to do for the website for now. I’ve personally got a box for the action belt, but finding a sealed 2-pack of PXL tapes might be a long wait…
And after all of that, I gotta slow down on the website for a bit here. I have 8 thousand things going on and even more priorities beyond. I’m hitting the road June 1 and I still have a lot of work to do on the camervan before I can actually leave, so I need to start focusing on that. Still, that doesn’t mean I’m doing nothing PXL related between now and then. I still hope to post the last few tutorials that I have done or mostly done. And, I still intend to make tripod clamps, which I know there is at least one customer who reached out and is waiting patiently for one. Hopefully I should be able to do all that before June. And after June, I should be able to put some more time into the site here.
Thank you for your tutorial on focusing the lens. I think you may have a typo? The sentence “Once dry, remove the glue, give it a gentle test, and if needed you can apply some more glue.” should read “Once dry, remove the tape, give it a gentle test, and if needed you can apply some more glue.”…?
You’re exactly right. Thanks for pointing out the mistake. Fixed.
Thanks for sending the PXL-2000 tripod adapter – it works great, well done.
Do you think its possible to modify a PXL-2000 to take an external video input, bypassing the camera module, and then encoding this signal to the cassette? This is similar to the AV IN that some camcorders have. I see there is a mod for bypassing the internal microphone, so something like that only for video.
In this case the movie could be shot using a higher end camera, and then PXL-2000 used as a hardware post processing unit.
Curious what your thoughts are…
Chris.