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I need camera info
mudge
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Help me...help me... I know there's enough expertise on this board to answer this question. Sooooo
I have a Canon 35mm with a 75-300 zoom lens. Took a bunch of great pictures at the Duxford air show last weekend. First time I've used that lens. Took over 300 pics and not one bad one.(Set the shutter speed at 2000 and actually stopped the propeller spin.) Anyway...I'd like to get a video camera that would have a lens that's equivalent to the 300mm on the Canon. Is there any such thing?
Mudge the photographically adequate
I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
Edited by - mudge on 07/19/2002 16:30:58
I have a Canon 35mm with a 75-300 zoom lens. Took a bunch of great pictures at the Duxford air show last weekend. First time I've used that lens. Took over 300 pics and not one bad one.(Set the shutter speed at 2000 and actually stopped the propeller spin.) Anyway...I'd like to get a video camera that would have a lens that's equivalent to the 300mm on the Canon. Is there any such thing?
Mudge the photographically adequate
I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
Edited by - mudge on 07/19/2002 16:30:58
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Is there a 60 or 70mm video lense out their that you can look thru ? I'm not into video so I don't know, just running the numbers.
"It was like that when I got here".Sorry do not know about lenses.
Edited by - 4wheeler on 07/19/2002 17:36:21
Edited by - 4wheeler on 07/19/2002 17:37:00
There are two kinds of zoom in the videocam world now that we've gone digital. There's optical zoom, which is what you have on your 35mm, which is real lens magnification. And there is additional zoom available called digital zoom in many cases, which begins where optical leaves off. There are some incredible magnifications available now (like 220 times) in the digital zoom.
The way it usually works is that the camera zooms in as far as it can optically and then the digital takes over and begins to zoom in on the pixels. So you begin to lose sharpness at that point because the pixels start to get bigger.
A 300mm optical zoom on a consumer camera is uncommon. You would be more likely to find one on a higher end videocam. Videocams are not always marketed with exchangeable zoom lenses, but at a good camera store you should be able to find the information you are looking for. I'm just not sure how much it will cost you to get what you want. You might find that there is a 300mm optical zoom out there, but between the lens and the camera it fits on, it's more than you want to spend. You can be sure small news organizations use lenses on vidcams like what you're looking for. I'm just not sure how cost-effectively you can find a product to suit you. I'd start by looking at the local discount store with a good vidcam department for the camera with the most optical zoom, say 22x or 30x optical. Find out what that is in millimeters (it will be on the lens, on the box, or in the manual). Then go from there.
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I tend to go to stores and browse -- the 'mart stores tend to have 35mm and videocams close together. try one, then try the other.
but be warned -- long lenses mean big bucks (or low quality)
good luck
Wild Turkey"if your only tool is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail"
Now for that engineering degree so I can figure out how it works.
Mudge the photographically challenged
I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
Congratulations. Sounds perfect. You might try actually reading the directions.... Seriously, glad we were of some little bit of help. You will probably find that once you have looked at the manual it is much easier to use than you were anticipating. Modern consumer cameras do have a lot of automatic features, and they're so well designed that even the pros can hardly fault them. The auto focus, auto exposure, settings for different lighting, bumping up the exposure when the backlight is too bright -- all that stuff is fairly simple on these cameras. You should have a ball. I hope you'll show us something one of these days.
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"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878