My camera has an issue and I'm working on getting it repaired soon, ignore that. Just wanted to demonstrate Firewire transfer on Windows 10 using a combination of VLC as the video stream and cropped display capture with OBS.
Found another buried head. After all the work I put into raising it, figured most people might get a chuckle out of the anti-climactic step I missed. Ended up being tiny hair like roots that grew into the nozzle from being buried for so long.
The rust is only in 1 spot on the drum, rest of the drum is perfect. Camera has been sitting since 2012 and trying to get some video off it since my father passed and would like to digitize all my tapes. Have contacted an ebay seller and we're discussing a trade in because I don't think this is fixable. It was working somewhat with horrible banding and audio stutter when playing tapes. Since spotting the issue on the drum I've tried cleaning it with 100% IPA + chamois swab and now I get no picture when playing tapes. :( Also the menu wheel is glitchy AF and I can't seem to fix that either. Any input appreciated.
No one has figured out yet who/why some are given the ability to hand out UNLIMITED free awards. A Reddit admin said users given the ability are random. Most likely to boost usage of awards. I haven't found an achievement correlation as I found one person who claimed to have it and their account was only 6 months old with minimal karma and achievements. Possible the ability might disappear as randomly as it was introduced. A possibility exists of a future implemented award based achievement? We'll have to wait and see where this goes.