Re: [libdv-dev] 16:9 / wide screen indicator

[Lukas K. <lu...@ra...>]

Erik Walthinsen wrote:
> 
> > I'm going comparision-shopping at some big electronics stores this
> > weekend, and I'm bringing some DV tapes to get evidence :)
> 
> That's not such a bad idea.  I'll see if they'll let me do that at
> CameraWorld.  Then I can try to get it dumped down to DV and put online, a
> few frames of each camera, try to get the same framing and so on.

One thing that can really make a consumer DV camera suck is a cheap wide
angle lens. My Sony PC100 has a nice Carl Zeiss lens and I stick a $30
dollar wide angle cheap glass thing on it and I am pretty sure I lose
about half of the resolving power around the 10% of the frame thats
around the edges. Some of the Kenko lenses are even worse. The chromatic
aberration can be really bad.

Does anybody have a URL's for good wide angle lenses for the PC100 ?

/Lukas

PS If you are bored you can see the result of some Win32 DV editing at
http://zelda.spray.se/~lukas/video.jsp .