I have a sony handycam HC20 and just recently the image in the
viewfinder became inverted... :/ the image on the LCD is fine and the
playback on the LCD and tape is correct.. but the viewfinder is
mirrored 100%  top to bottom.. left to right..
any idea what caused this and/or is it easily remedied?
thanks in advance.
dano

On 8/14/2005, Dano managed to type:
The display automatically inverts when you reverse it to view it from
the front. This is controlled by a switch, which evidently no longer is
working.

HTH,
Gino

It's backwards in the eyepiece viewfinder not the LCD though.. that's
the confusing part... I see no reason for it to mirror in the eyepiece.

On 8/15/2005, Dano managed to type:
Sorry - I leapt to a conclusion. In fact, I see that I misread your
original post. My apologies...

Wish I could help...

Gino

On my Panasonic, the eyepiece display turns off when I open out the
LCD.   If, however, it DID remain active, I would expect it to receive
the same video feed as was sent to the LCD.

Do both of yours remain active?   Has the LCD got a "flip" feature?

yeah.. it turns off too, but inverted eyepiece image when LDC is
closed.. then it turns off when I open the LCD and the LCD works fine
facing forward or backwards.. then close ithe LCD and the eyepiece
image is still inerted... I resorted to some very technical "whacking"
it on the side last night and oddly enough that didn't fix it either.
the time frame that it happened.. the LCD had never been opened.. I did
maybe 20seconds of filming.. turned it off.. and no decernable trama
that I can remember.. turned it back on, and then the eyepiece was in
the bazarro world..
no word back from sony yet either... and it's obviously out of
warrentee.

Is it possible that the eyepiece focus diopter lens has fallen out? Check to
see if you can still adjust eyepiece focus (if that's an option at all)

well that would at least make some sence.. but I checked and that's not
it.. I'm afraid it's somehow electrical.. I'd love it to be a switch
that got bumped or something.. but I doubt it.

maybe it's seeing a parallel universe

On 8/16/2005, Dano managed to type:
Here's a parallel idea:

it might be possible to remove the viewfinder and replace it reversed
180, without too much trouble or risk.

I assume it's an LCD. The above solution would be harder if it's a CRT,
I think. You might have to reverse the deflection coil, not the tube,
in that case.

Note that astronomers and microscopists get pretty used to seeing
things upside down and reversed (astronomical telescopes have several
reversal modes - left to right, top to bottom, or both, depending on
the presence or absences of diagonal mirrors, and so on).

Also owners of the old style (non-pentaprism) reflex cameras are used
to left to right reversals, and they deal with it fine (I have done so
myself).

Gino

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