[Catama Productions]

This is all so useful to me, you guys. Thanks so much.

@Phil: I am certainly not interested in moving any parts of the camera just so i can use a 30 year old 16mm lens! So don’t worry about that. I was wondering how the optics worked, and you cleared that up. Thank you very much. I just wanted to clarify though, that you are pretty sure there is no way to use any of these 16mm lenses. I would think some sort of optics may work, but am I mistaken? I found this

https://www.viewsolutionsinc.com/products/Digital%20Camera%20Adapter.htm

I have no idea if this would work.

I guess I am just trying to find some old lenses for cheap that I could use for a video I am producing that has some “Historic” moments in it. A lens that would give me DOF, but maybe still have some vignetting and/or a softness. The canon lenses are just too sharp!

Any ideas?

@Jonathan: As cropping the image to 640×480 is not physically changing the size of the chip, would that actually work. I am going to try it today, just to see, but my camera is not here right now.

Thanks guys! This is quite interesting for me. I appreciate the learnin’.

[Catama Productions]

sorry. here is the link.

https://www.fotodiox.com/product_info.php?products_id=487

So if i added some distance, like with an extension barrel, that would increase the Depth of field? Magnification is not a problem, as most of the lenses are below 100mm. And I am just using them because i have a project where I thought it might be cool to have a little vignetting/edge deformation.

[Catama Productions]

Thanks for the help. I went through your book for the HVX200 twice trying to figure this out. Nice to hear from the man himself. I will take a look at my framerate settings.

Allen

[Catama Productions]

Yep. My bad. the framerate is in 30.

We have done some tests in the office, and can’t really find any sort of reason why it would do what it does. We are on a shoot now, and had it not work. So we switched out of Native mode and into “Standard” 720/24p. Then we went back to 720/30PN. Audio was there. Who knows why.

However, this “fix”, switching from one mode to another, only works occasionally. Other times, nothing happens.

[Catama Productions]

What if the frame rate just says 1/30, in 30pn mode? Would that affect it?

Allen

[Catama Productions]

Thanks for the ideas. Just curious, do you crop when you go from HD to SD, or do you resize, or both?

Unfortunately, I can’t really edit natively in HD because I don’t have an HD monitor (yet). And I tend to think that I would rather see the downconverted image as I was editing, rather than finish an edit and find that something didn’t look “quite right”. Do you ever run into this problem?

Thanks very much for your workflow. I knew someone out there had to be doing this on a regular basis.

Allen

[Catama Productions]

Yeah…

I only thought about that after having three scenes in the can. Out of continued morbid curiosity, what sort of storm would I be piloting this boat into if I decided to switch it up now?

Again, I will probably be posting with FCP. so I would have to take the scenes I have already shot, and somehow get them into the 24base timeline that I would use for the rest of the stuff. How hard is that to do, or is it even possible?

I have never used the advanced mode, but I would agree that it makes sense, especially if I decided to do a film-out.

Can I match it with the stuff I already have?

[Catama Productions]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! It worked !!

[Catama Productions]

Thanks but I have Quicktime 7 and I already have thrown out my FCP preferences. ?????