backfocus problem with squeeze mode?

[matthewd5]

hello.

i'm working on a short and we ran into a problem i have never seen before.

we are using squeeze mode (i've never used this before) and we found that when you zoom in and set a nice sharp focus and then zoom all the way back out the subject will be in a fuzzy soft focus.

this was the same on 3 dvx100a's

is this just a side effect of squeeze?

also i'm using a sony 14" pl2? monitor with the 16:9 switch enabled.

not sure if their method of unsqueezing the image might be part of the problem?

it isn't all that visible in the viewfinder or lcd.

matthew

 

[HorseFilms]

I've shot quite a few things in squeeze and never noticed a problem. It sounds like the monitor might have something to do with it. Have you looked at the footage in your NLE?

 

[Monglane]

Concur with Horse Films. Never encountered that problem and the DVX is famous for, inter alia, its ability to back focus very accurately. One camera may always have a defect, but if the problem was encountered with 3 different cameras, the monitor probably has something to do with it.

 

[mikkowilson]

It doesn't *sound* like a monitor problem.. a pixel is a pixel.

What sort of shootign conditions?
Temperature, humidity..
And what about the subject? a Major shift in brightness during the zoom maybe?

- Mikko