1985 Canon VM-E1 Camcorder Demo Tape: "The VM-E1" and "Capturing the Moment"

A recent eBay find - a Video8 tape that looks like it was supplied with the Canon VM-E1, Canon's first consumer camcorder sold in the UK.
00:00 - Preamble
01:50 - Mystery Footage
04:20 - "Part 1: The VM-E1"
10:05 - "Part 2: Capturing the Moment"

[@RetroGadgetMan]

Very nostalgic seeing all those old cars again. I remember them all.

[@jamesbennettmusic]

I had one with big power unit / video pass-through box and soft case with it, donated to me when I was 15 (in 2001). Wish I hadn't got rid of it a few years ago (in pieces to get a stuck tape out) but decluttering for a house move was to blame. The jump from the swan to the marching band was hilarious. Subbed!

[@alanstarkie2001]

First camcorder I owned!

[@video99couk]

I remember the infra red autofocus on a Canon E808. It usually worked rather well, it didn't tend to hunt as much as some later models. However it wouldn't work at all if you were looking through a window.

[@timf-tinkering]

I only used Sony camcorders in the 90s (TR55, then a V800, then a TR75 I think) and found their TTL autofocus to be dim-witted, and frequently needed manual correction. Our later Panasonic MiniDV (MX5 iirc) had much better autofocus.

[@ConsumerDV]

Nice! I wish you uploaded in 50p, although it looks surprisingly decent for 25p.

[@timf-tinkering]

I didn't deinterlace the video at all. I uploaded as an interlaced DV-AVI file (576i); CZcams did the deinterlacing.

[@ConsumerDV]

@@timf-tinkering CZcams does not do any meaningful deinterlacing, it always weaves fields, which is surprising to me: why YT cannot deinterlace offline when every TV set does it on real time. But them are things.