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Where to get a Firewire 800 > 400 converter, cheap, in the UK please! :)

TheSVD

TheSVD

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Hey, i have looked around the forums but most of it is US stores and stuff.
Where can i get that cable in the UK for cheap, which you plug into the FW800 port and on the other end is a FW 400 female port?
I REALLY need that in my 2 weeks easter break, as i need to capture some footage off of some cameras for my college assesments... this quite literally depends on my future because if i cant capture and edit this footage now, i wont have tim eto edit it when i get back to college, and ill fail my A level!
Didnt mean to ask for the sympathy vote there :p

EDIT: Or a cheap express card to FW400, either way :)
Thankyou!

*Oh, and i mean to order online thankyou :)

EDIT3: Alot of people seem to be not reading my post down below, so ill put it that i found this product: http://www.ilgs.co.uk/products.asp?partno=FAD-824 And was wondering if this will work okay to capture some video from my video camera, thanks :)
 
I dont think that convertor will work for capturing video? You have to get a really expensive device to allow you to do that from FW 400 to 800.
 
In case you just want the adapter without cable sometimes they are called FW800 to FW400 "gender changers" (even if it doesn't change the gender of your endpoint, like you want. You have to check the genders at each side).
 
Darn, It was a link to a 800 to 4pin dv cable.

I think the adapter your looking at will work fine but it's not as cheap as the cables from kenable

Edit:
Link seems to work again, at least for me.
 
I know you already found what you were looking for, but fyi, express card doesn't supply power, so you will always need an external power source when using an express card adapter.
 
You don't need an adapter, just buy a new FW800 version of the cable to replace your old FW400 cables.

The adapters are easy to lose, simply tossing a new cable in with the camera eliminates something you need to find to hook the camera up.
 
no, cause that illogically means buying lots of new cables when i could just buy one adapter...
Cause i want to be able to plug in other things via FW400 in the future, and rather than buying new cables, thought this would be better?
Can someone please just confirm, for the love of god, whether this will let me capture footage from my camera using firewire DV pal right from the camera, into the adapter? :D
 
Only need 2 cables, a 9-to-4 pin for camera and a 9-to-6 pin for the current FW400 devices -- since your daisy chaining off the FW400 devices will still use the current cables.

Especially since you only have one FW800 port on the notebooks, and the 2 cables are generally less expensive than the 1 adapter.
 
If this is what you need...

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TheSVD said:
yeah... thats male to male, one side of that is FW800, and the other, 4 pin, FW 400 used for cameras?
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The 9-pin is the FW800.

The 4-pin and 6-pin connectors are FW400.

FW800 is backwards compatible with FW400 so plugging in a FW400 device on the other end just turns the port into a FW400 port.

No conversion needed, all you need is a port adapter or a cable with the right connectors. Whichever is easiest to find.
 
okay, thankyou :D
All i wanted to do, is just plug my FW400 4pin camera into my firewire 800 slot, and i guess this is the way to do it cheapest :D
As that other thing was way expensive w/shipping :p

ARGG
they only take paypal, i dont have a paypal account!
Looks like its that other site :(
 
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