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Panasonic HMC150 focus problem
I’ve had the camera for a few months but I’ve had this problem happen to me a few times and I want to know if I should be worried. When I perform a tight zoom to manually adjust my focus – the focus begins to jitter in and out rapidly while a noise can be heard in the camera. When I zoom out it is fine. This only happens occasionally but enough to make me worry – Everything is set to manual. Any ideas on what I should do would be great.
Chad Potts -
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This sounds like you are using the auto-focus feature and NOT manually focusing the shot yourself.
I NEVER use the auto-focus because it’s way too slow to keep up. Everything I shoot is manually focused.
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Hi Guy McLoughlin ,
I wish it was that simple – I keep everything on Manual – and I have a second HMC150 that does has not had this problem. It first happened when I connected my Redrock adapter…Now it has happened at least 3 times since then without the adapter. I’m taking it on a full day shoot tomorrow and I’ll post what happens – anything else you think it could be? -
It sounds like it could be physical damage to the lens mechanism, which means you are going to have to take the camera to Panasonic and have them check it.
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