Vintage Canon ES2500 Video Camcorder 8mm

hey retro tech friends and welcome to another edition of dave's retro video lab the show where i buy old video cameras from just about everywhere and i bring them back to the lab so we can see if they still work after sitting for decades in uncle carl's attic and if they don't work they will get to meet our new lab assistant buff today we are going to examine one of my favorite old-school camcorders it's canon's vm e1 8-millimeter camcorder which was canon's first camcorder believe it or not i did do my research and i believe this is canon's first camcorder canon first marketed the vme one back in october of 1985 as part of canon's newly introduced cano vision 8 line of 8 millimeter video gear so let's say christmas of 1985 is approaching and you wanted one of these beige beauties under your christmas tree well i hope you were on santa's nice list because that was going to set santa bac