Pointless Wide Screen Lenses

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  • dazuk1972
    Digital Video Specialist
    Digital Video Specialist
    • Jul 2005
    • 853

    Pointless Wide Screen Lenses

    I bought a screw-on wide screen lens and I just found out they are pointless. What I mean is, when you are not zoomed into anything at all you film four sections of the inside of the screw-on wide screen lens and when you playback the footage from that you get rounded shapes on all four corners of the screen. When you zoom in a little the rounded shapes won't appear. What is pointless is, all the screw-on wide screen lens does is makes things appear to be further away in order to fit more at the left and right and also the top and bottom. Getting to the point now about the pointless part. When I zoom in a little to avoid the rounded shapes, what I see on the screen is the same as what I see without the screw-on lens without zooming into anything so the screw-on lens is a waste of time and money, it's pointless. If I'm going to use the screw-on lens and zoom in a little to avoid the rounded shapes, I might as well not use the screw-on lens and keep the zoom zoomed out and send the screw-on lens back to save money. I can still film in wide screen without the screw-on lens but I thought with the screw-on lens I could see more on the screen and I can but it's stupid that it was made where we film four sections of the inside of the screw-on lens. Watching something with those rounded shapes make it look as if I was filming through a porthole. It looked just like that tonight when I played back some footage from when I was filming on a boat on Sunday.
  • paglamon
    Lord of Digital Video
    Lord of Digital Video
    • Aug 2005
    • 2126

    #2
    What is the conversion factor of your wide angle lens ? What is the focal length of your camera lens ?
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    • dazuk1972
      Digital Video Specialist
      Digital Video Specialist
      • Jul 2005
      • 853

      #3
      Originally Posted by paglamon
      What is the conversion factor of your wide angle lens ? What is the focal length of your camera lens ?
      I'm not sure how to find the coverstion factor. The length of my lens is 40x. I set it ages ago to zoom in further. Zooming in doesn't cause the problem, it's when I zoom out causes it where I can see everything in the wide screen where everything in the background is far away.

      Many thanks.

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      • drpepper
        Gold Member
        Gold Member
        • May 2006
        • 117

        #4
        How is this different then your prior post that I responded too?
        Talk about general digital video topics not part of the categories/forums below

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