On 26 May 2002 20:05:43 GMT, "Chris" wrote:

>"Mike Rehmus" wrote in message
>news:ack7cv$o79$1@bob.news.rcn.net...
>> Use only one brand of tape in the camera.

>This problem is relative. Not everyone has this problem. I switch tape
>brands regularly, and have never had any problems.

This may be due to:
- mixing tapes *regularly and often* may be OK
(some people report this)
- most (all?) tape brands are made by either Sony
or Panasonic (you may have been lucky in your
tape-brand choices)
- minor dropouts are corrected invisibly when there
is no motion in the frame (using a tripod without
pan/tilt/zoom would reduce the percentage of
visible minor dropouts)
- you may not be sensitive to minor dropouts (many
people aren't, since they occupy only a small
part of one frame, and the dropouts are replaced
with image material from the previous frame).
People do still report problems (often serious) as
a result of tape-brand mixing, so it is also good
to make people aware of this possibility...