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Guys...............................
Richard:
Not that it's germain to this thread, but I was referring to the well documented inability to accurately control the focus system using a remote Lanc controller (note, the operative word here is "accurately").
If you have an A1/ G1 you will already be aware that manual focussing, even with it set to "slow", is a true art form, especially as the lens is racked further and further out to Z99 (which is where it usually sits when shooting wildlife). Using a Lanc it ceases to be "art" and turns into a lottery.
I don't really want to set this argument going all over again as it's not relevant to this thread, surfice it to say, Canon have put their collective hands up to this, referring to it as a "design limitation" (of what, exactly, was never explained).
The reason it's such a deal breaker for me is that when shooting birds, rather than get the worms eye view from ground level, I use a rather large jib to get a birds eye view way up in their habitat. You can't use auto focus, 'cos it's all over the place like a dogs dinner, and because of this problem, you can't use manual focus either.
Game over.
Wil:
I think you may have misread or misunderstood my post.
The A1/ G1 takes beutifull video, I should know, I've got hundreds of hours of it.
What I was pointing out to Ralph was that if one's expectations/ intentions was/ were indeed to shoot like/ for National Geographic, HDV ain't the way to go.
CS
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