In the early 1990s, I bought this Ricoh R-830 Video Camera Recorder, and the salesperson said that it was actually made by Sony, but with a different (and better) lens.
It's had such little use that it's not easy to tell it from new by looking at it.
I'm hoping someone can cross-reference to the closest Sony number for me, or tell me how I can find this out.
I'd like to tear into this thing and find out why it's not working, and would feel better if I had a Sony number to hang on it.
When pressed, a couple of years ago, the folks at Ricoh simply say, "We don't sell video cameras." End of story. I couldn't even get them to admit that they had ever sold them.
So, anybody able to cross-reference?