how to determine damage to lens/viewfinder?
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Terry_Lasater
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Re: how to determine damage to lens/viewfinder?
OK, confess... what did you do to your camera?! :
Basic symptoms of lens damage? How about a big crack across the front element (?).
Sorry, but I'm not sure how to answer this question.
Can you be more specific about the problem? ???
OK, confess... what did you do to your camera?! :
Basic symptoms of lens damage? How about a big crack across the front element (?).
Sorry, but I'm not sure how to answer this question.
Can you be more specific about the problem? ???
Re: how to determine damage to lens/viewfinder?
hehe, no, no damage. Just read that you should NOT point the cam/viewfinder at the sun etc.. what does this do if it happens? I'm using a UV filter, but was outside shooting on a sunny day yesterday and was super paranoid. I dont want to destroy something I paid good money for. thanks
hehe, no, no damage. Just read that you should NOT point the cam/viewfinder at the sun etc.. what does this do if it happens? I'm using a UV filter, but was outside shooting on a sunny day yesterday and was super paranoid. I dont want to destroy something I paid good money for. thanks
Terry_Lasater
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Re: how to determine damage to lens/viewfinder?
I will have to yield to others more qualified on that topic.
However, I can say that I've shot video for more than 17 years dating back to older tube cameras (like the Ikegami 79).
Now, with those earlier tube cameras you definitely had to worry about swiping your camera across the Sun or catching a reflection off a chrome bumper or letting a studio light get into your shot. If you did they would leave a nasty smear trail of color that would sometimes require shooting a white card and overexposing it until the trail burned away.
Earlier CCD cameras would show any bright spike in a picture as a vertical line. CCDs have improved greatly since then and aren't nearly as subject to harm from extreme brightness and/or contrast.
However, I suppose it is possible to damage the camera in some way if it were pointed directly at the Sun for a long period of time. It may depend on the time of day too.
I think you're generally safe to shoot a few minutes of the Sun as it rises or sets on the horizon... if that's what you're wondering about.
I have a client who owns a Sony DSR-500 that has damage to the viewfinder. He often shoots outdoors and leaves the camera on tripod (pointed away from Sun), but the viewfinder is pointed upwards.
After several hours of the Sun transmitting through the viewfinder lens, the plastic inside the viewfinder has begun to melt. The camera lens and viewfinder lens work kinda like a magnifying glass under the Sun, so caution!
I will have to yield to others more qualified on that topic.
However, I can say that I've shot video for more than 17 years dating back to older tube cameras (like the Ikegami 79).
Now, with those earlier tube cameras you definitely had to worry about swiping your camera across the Sun or catching a reflection off a chrome bumper or letting a studio light get into your shot. If you did they would leave a nasty smear trail of color that would sometimes require shooting a white card and overexposing it until the trail burned away.
Earlier CCD cameras would show any bright spike in a picture as a vertical line. CCDs have improved greatly since then and aren't nearly as subject to harm from extreme brightness and/or contrast.
However, I suppose it is possible to damage the camera in some way if it were pointed directly at the Sun for a long period of time. It may depend on the time of day too.
I think you're generally safe to shoot a few minutes of the Sun as it rises or sets on the horizon... if that's what you're wondering about.
I have a client who owns a Sony DSR-500 that has damage to the viewfinder. He often shoots outdoors and leaves the camera on tripod (pointed away from Sun), but the viewfinder is pointed upwards.
After several hours of the Sun transmitting through the viewfinder lens, the plastic inside the viewfinder has begun to melt. The camera lens and viewfinder lens work kinda like a magnifying glass under the Sun, so caution!
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Re: how to determine damage to lens/viewfinder?
Yes Terry.. you are right. Although the DVX is pretty safe the viewfinder, because of the diopter on the lens. The original Canon XL1s where horrible for this and many many people had melted tubes.
If your shooting in the sun, the easiest thing to do is just have a white towel with you and throw it over the camera when its just sitting on the tripod. IT should help tremendously.
Yes Terry.. you are right. Although the DVX is pretty safe the viewfinder, because of the diopter on the lens. The original Canon XL1s where horrible for this and many many people had melted tubes.
If your shooting in the sun, the easiest thing to do is just have a white towel with you and throw it over the camera when its just sitting on the tripod. IT should help tremendously.