Before.
Read your instruction manual it will tell you about operating  
temperatures.  Could it be that your lens fogged up?  We all know the  
answer to that one.

After you bring it indoors.
I think Casey had the same trouble last year and my advice is the  
same, if your machine gets cold then warm again quickly, you could  
get condensation on your heads.  This will make your tape stick to  
your heads, and therefore loss of any recoding made because the tape  
will be wrapped around your heads, and more seriously, the machine  
will be Kaput, and in need of major attention.  So when you have done  
filming, remove tape before you bring it indoors, then leave the  
camera for about 1 hour maybe 2 on the safe side to acclimatize.

In summary, it was probably not the acclimatizing to cold but the re- 
acclimatizing back indoors.

Hope this helps.

Paul Knight

On 2 Dec 2006, at 17:47, Mike Moon wrote:

> Well, I tried vlogging last night, -1c (31f), and the video was crap
> with my older JVC miniDV camcorder.
>
> What's the best way to acclimatize the camcorder for outdoor videoing?
> So it works...
>
> http://vlog.mikemoon.net/2006/12/facing-winter.html
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> 



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