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JC/DV
10-29-2006, 12:25 PM
OK, for some reason yesterday when I was doing a birthday party for a 75 year old woman, I got bored during the dinner. So I started playing with the eyepiece diopter and found a more comfortable position to use. I was using MF most the time too. As I was capturing the footage and previewing on my monitor at HD rez.... its out of focus and I know some of those shots were spot on in focus looking through the VF.

Is it possible that changing the diaptor changed what I saw and whatever I made look good in VF is not actually how it is recorded? I dunno if this is only on these cams or what.........

RatVega
10-29-2006, 02:31 PM
Just a guess, but is it possible that you somehow got the diopter out of focus (like it looked OK really close in) and skewed the longer shots? I know that HD demands much finer focus...

JC/DV
10-29-2006, 02:53 PM
Possibly. I'm going to play with it soon and hook up to my monitor and match the focus in VF to the screen throughout the focal length and not mess with the diopter again!