u/Mike1536748383

I recently started up my mom's old Sony camcorder as I want to make vintage styled videos for my trip to the Adirondacks. It was reading a C:31:23 which I was able to fix with that method of replacing that tiny inner spacer of the pinch roller with a cut piece of ballpoint pen ink tube, so now it records fine. The issue I have now is the fear of other parts breaking on me once I get there.

So, in general, with this camcorder, what other internal parts are prone to brittle decay and general shelf rot similar to said spacer insider the pinch rollers? Like is there really anything else I should be worried about and should probably replace before my trip? I'm 21 now and I know for a fact that I never laid eyes on this camcorder over the past decade, so it's been sitting in the least unused for over 10 years.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

I'm heading up to the Adirondacks for a few nights and really want to make an attempt at passive evidence gathering. What I mean by this is gathering evidence using devices that only take in information and not putting anything out. One way I'm doing this is by using my mom's old camcorders to see if anything wants to show itself, this can have 2 benefits. 1: At this point, I feel squatches would be well knowledgeable of what modern phones and cameras look like, so seeing this weird box thing in my hands might not set off any alarm bells right away, and 2: The camcorders don't put out any invisible form of light like ir or focus lasers, unlike my modern phone camera, and it's starting to seem more and more like squatches really don't like the range of the light spectrum we cannot see, personally I think they try to stay in the shadow of it whenever people are using night vision trying to catch a glimpse of them.

Anyways, one final piece of equipment I need for my trip is something to record Audio with. What I would do is I would just have it on me when hiking but primarily set it out at night on the porch of the cabin to record whatever may want to make a sound. My budget for this audio recorder is at most $200 and I would hope it could have at least a 10 hour battery life. I would also want to be able to view the audio on one of those colorful spectrogram programs, I'm not sure if the recorder would have to have some specific specs for that to be possible. So yeah, any suggestions that fit this description would be greatly appreciated.

I did consult the almighty Google Ai and it suggested the Zoom H1essential 32-Bit Float Handy Recorder, but I'd thought I'd come here for a solid second opinion by real people before I go out and buy something lol.

Is the Olympic Project website acting up for anyone else? Keeps telling me the site can't be reached.