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lcd screen sharp?
Does anyone else have an lcd scrreen that doesn’t seem to be tack sharp? Can’t always use an external monitor to judge focus. Also – – anyone know where the actual focal plane is ?
David
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3 Replies
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It’s a complaint I’ve seen on other lists (and maybe in a review or 2).
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my biggest complaint of the screen (as well as the dvx’s screen) is that the viewing angle is rediculously narrow. anything off axis and the image looks horrible. (I mean toup and down of axis, forget side to side)
Though I love the panasonic cameras – the screen in the Sony TRV900 I owned years ago was better.
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I posted a long thread on focusing on another forum, but it comes down to this:
No matter how sharp the LCD is or isn’t, you simply cannot judge focus on a 2-million pixel frame by viewing it on a 200,000 pixel LCD. It’s simply impossible. You HAVE to use other focusing aids.
The HVX offers three. First, put on the EVF DTL and never take it off. That’s the bare minimum you should be doing.
Second, use the magnified focus assist. That helps enormously, and those two alone (EVF DTL and Focus Assist) have been enough to get us through several shoots where no monitor was available, and the footage was always tack sharp.
Third, use the distance readout. Measure from the front of the lens, and the distance readout in the viewfinder is quite accurate. Recently we’ve been using a laser measurer (note: NOT an ultrasonic measurer!) and getting pinpoint focus precision that way.
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