What a bummer.

Well, it had to happen sooner or later, my heads finally got dirty on my VX1000 today. Me and Richie were shooting a movie today and we were out in the freezing cold for about 2 hours when I see a little blinking X on my camera. I've never seen it before so I just ignored it. Apparently that's the sign for "your heads are dirty". I knew this day would come, it just sucks it happened in the middle of filming and we lost 50% of the video we shot today. My options are either new heads for 300$, or get these ones professionally cleaned for like 80$. Either way I have to ship my camera away and that really bums me out because I had a lot of plans for filming coming up. I'm thinking about just getting the heads cleaned, selling the camera, and getting a different camera. I'd like to make my way up to a DVX100, HVX200, or ultimately a HPX170. Richie said I can use his VX2100 whenever I want, but I'm still mad that I won't have my camera for a while. I'm going to go try and buy a head cleaning tape tomorrow after work and see if that gets me moving again for a little bit.