Angle of View Question for green screen :)

beno

beno

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Hi, hopefully someone can direct me to a resource or something which can help. We're shooting a music video on Thursday on Green Screen and the background plate on Wednesday on a stills camera.

We're trying to match the angle of view on a NIKON SLR (18-70mm) (which we're shooting timelapse background plate) with the angle of view on a HVX stock lens' (which we're shooting the foreground plate on.

Any idea what focal length on the HVX would match the SLR's field of veiw at 18mm?

Is there a chart for the field of view on HVX?

Any help much appreciated :)
thanks
 
You can't match the angle of view from an 18mm SLR with the HVX200's stock lens.

The stock lens on the HVX200 is about equivalent to a 32.5 to 422mm zoom. You'll need to use a wide angle adapter that's at least a 0.6 or wider. Century makes one. The only limit is that you can't use the full range of the zoom.

Good luck with the shoot!
 
Is your background plate going to need to track against your foreground or is the foreground plate locked-off? You might need to disregard the FOV somewhat in favor of extra real estate for tracking motion.

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I don't think we can do any tracking because the background is taken on a locked off the SLR and we won't be able to simulate any perspective on the big road we're photographing.

We were going to dolly in and out square on but i still could do with matching the SLR with the HVX's angle of view? what do you think?
 
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