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Planet60 Films 5 months ago

Woah, what happened?
Is your camera alright?

That looked cool btw.
mike ambs ☂ 5 months ago

I'm not sure :P One the static arms must have sweeped across the glass right in front of the lens... and causes something to wig out. I wanted to ask one of the workers at the center if that's happened to anyone before.

The camera stayed that way until I shut if off and back on. I was kinda' freaking out for a few seconds though - if it would have still had those crazy purple-pink lines on it after restarting it... I would have been sad... to say the least.

I did look cool ;)
Paul Capewell 5 months ago

Yikes! That's a heart-stopper right there! Glad it wasn't permanent... Cool video!
erica hampton 5 months ago

"Uh oh......."

;)
leslie 5 months ago

you put your camera near what's basically a small tesla coil (i want a big one for my front lawn someday), and it survived? sweet!
Nic 4 months ago

Extraordinary electrical phenomenon and sensitive electronics don't mix very well. I'll bet it latched up something (probably a parasitic transistor used as input stage on a CMOS device).

Sometimes that's fatal, but a power cycle will usually allow it to recover, if you do it right away and it doesn't overheat. Glad it was just an "Uh oh" and not a "Oh shit!"