Jan Luethje |
March 10th, 2007 08:32 AM |
I could neither see the effect in HDV - or at least, it is not that obvious. So it could be a mere SD problem. My cam came back from service yesterday. The techs there also tested the whole 'plastic skin' issue. One of them told me, that it's definetly NOT a back focus problem or -in their eyes- a problem to be fixed at all. "That's just the way the camera is. " Well, he admitted, that the image would in fact look quite soft in SD without tweaking. "But you know, all type of Canon cams got some weak points. For example, the XM2 (Gl2) has a strange, somehow built-in color shift towards margenta..." He also mentioned, that -when opening the cam, to fix a broken earphone-jack- he was quite impressed, how good the manufacturing quality was - "much better than the GL2."
Looks like I'll have to live with this effect, diminish it by tweaking the settings-and turn to HDV postpro as quickly as possible. For I love the cam apart from this point -it has so many pros- that's okay for me.
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