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I am looking at prosumer camcorders from sony, canon, jvc, red, panasonic, and any other I can find.
Do some brands have wider angles then others?
To make movies and documentaries do you have to film in wide angle? I mean I will be doing it in HD and aren't all films and tv's formatted mainly to widescreen nowadays? Is wide angle the same as wide screen?
Do I need a wide angle lens or is stock wide enough?
Answer
Wide angle lenses and wide screen (16:9) aspect ratio are mutually exclusive.
If the camcorder's field of view does not capture enough of a space - and you cannot pull the camera back any more - then use of a wide angle lens can increase the camera's field of view. There is a building going up in my city. From across the street, the entire width of the building won't fit in my camera's field of view - by using a 0.7x wide angle lens add-on, nearly the entire width of the construction project fits so I can pretty much eliminate having to pan the camera. When you have a wider angle, the more distortion you will notice on the captured video. At the extreme, there are fisheye lenses commonly used for skateboard videos... These will be in the 0.3x or 0.4x range.
The opposite will be use of a tele-lens. I occasionaly use a 2x tele lens when the built-in optical zoom is not enough to zoom into what I want.
If you are capturing high definition video, that, by definition is widescreen. All that means is the aspect ration is 16:9 rather than the more square 4:3 or older standard definition televisions.
Whether you need/want a wide angle lense will depend on the shot you are trying to achieve.
Wide angle lenses and wide screen (16:9) aspect ratio are mutually exclusive.
If the camcorder's field of view does not capture enough of a space - and you cannot pull the camera back any more - then use of a wide angle lens can increase the camera's field of view. There is a building going up in my city. From across the street, the entire width of the building won't fit in my camera's field of view - by using a 0.7x wide angle lens add-on, nearly the entire width of the construction project fits so I can pretty much eliminate having to pan the camera. When you have a wider angle, the more distortion you will notice on the captured video. At the extreme, there are fisheye lenses commonly used for skateboard videos... These will be in the 0.3x or 0.4x range.
The opposite will be use of a tele-lens. I occasionaly use a 2x tele lens when the built-in optical zoom is not enough to zoom into what I want.
If you are capturing high definition video, that, by definition is widescreen. All that means is the aspect ration is 16:9 rather than the more square 4:3 or older standard definition televisions.
Whether you need/want a wide angle lense will depend on the shot you are trying to achieve.
Questions about plugging my Camcorder into my Computer?
Tanner D
For quite some time now I've been wondering if and how I can plug my camcorder into my computer. My camcorder is a JVC model GR- 250us and I have a normal Dell computer. And I don't know much about computers or camcorders. So can somebody please tell me if I can plug my camcorder into my computer, and with what type of cable? Thanks in advance!
Answer
The JVC GR-D250US
Download the camcorder manual here:
http://books.jvcservice.com/booklist.asp?Model=GR-D250US
ALL miniDV camcorders (from JVC, Sony, Panasonic, Canon, Samsung and others) use their DV port and a Firewire cable to connect to the firewire400 port of your computer. If your computer does not have a firewire port, adding one is easy if you have expansion ports on your computer.
Refer to page 37 in the manual. Firewire, IEEE1394a, DV and i.LINK are all the same thing. You do not need to use a cable from JVC. I use one from Belkin and one from Monster.
The JVC GR-D250US
Download the camcorder manual here:
http://books.jvcservice.com/booklist.asp?Model=GR-D250US
ALL miniDV camcorders (from JVC, Sony, Panasonic, Canon, Samsung and others) use their DV port and a Firewire cable to connect to the firewire400 port of your computer. If your computer does not have a firewire port, adding one is easy if you have expansion ports on your computer.
Refer to page 37 in the manual. Firewire, IEEE1394a, DV and i.LINK are all the same thing. You do not need to use a cable from JVC. I use one from Belkin and one from Monster.
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