20 Most Recent Sony DCR-HC42E Mini DV Digital Camcorder Questions & Answers

Go into your setup menu and find the color mode. You can set the type of image filters to use.

your driver dont support vista
give me more information about your camera like the full name and version ok
and i ll give you a direct link to download your driver vista version

Was having a similar problem but the tape would not even partially load. Spent several hours, over the course of several days trying to figure how to fix this and found the following solution to a similar problem on this site. I tried it as a last resort...it worked! Now I just need to figure out what to tell my wife when she asks me "how" I fixed the camera???? Here is what I did...I allowed the mechanism to close without a tape inserted (the only way it WOULD close), gave it a solid - but gentle - whack on the tape side of the camcorder with the palm of my hand...sort of like burping a baby. I said a little prayer to the saint of hopeless causes (St. Jude Thaddeus)...slid the open/eject button, opened the door, slid a tape in, gently pushed it down (where it says "push") and ...the mechanism closed!!! Not sure if the "fix" will last but we'll see and report back if the problem crops up again.

you cannot use usb connection on vista with this camcorder if you want to transfer videos from tape. use a firewire or an ilink cable and windows movie maker to capture videos. no drivers needed.

try connecting the camcorder to a pc using the cable, sometimes a pc can fix the drive. or you will need to do a factory reset. press in the rest button next to the lcd screen for 3 seconds.

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hi, your HDD is either not connected properly or the connector is gone opposite side, please check it and correct, if the error code is showing again go to menu, manage media, then format disk

you will to ontact the customs office in Kiwiland for that answer. In most cases cleaning the hopper in warm soapy water and buying new filters is enough. Some places require a hospital grade detergent such as wESCODYNE be used to include the air hose(s). Please beware, the AC power in AU/NZ is 230 VAC, so you will need a step down power transformer to use it there. (You'd be better off just buying a new one there to be honest, then you needed worry about lugging a heavy power transformer around of changing the plug end to the Clipsal type used in AU/NZ.)

Worth drying another chip.

you have to convert it to Ifilm

It could be the bad HDD, look for hdd's for ipod and replace it, they are compatible.