Elliot Lucak
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A while ago my crappy camcorder started to break [tripod socket got chewed and the front case of the lens broke off how the fu] and considering how useless it is I figured I'd do a little experiment that I've always wanted to try.
I never personally cared much for dof adapters as they are so cumbersome and you lose a ton of detail and light in the process [IMO], so I figured I'd do the logical thing and just take the horrible plastic lens out and mount a 35mm system lens right onto the damn camcorder.
Well, the crop factor is insane to say the least... Converts a 50mm into a 320mm lens, and turns my 200mm into a 1280mm [!!!] lens.
To those that say mounting a 35mm system lens won't affect the dof because of the sensor, I don't know where you're pulling that from because I have to stop my lenses down to F22 to get the same dof that I got with the stock lens, and the stock lens is faster then many of my lenses.
That is to say, you get some real nice [shallow] DOF, which is amplified by the crop factor and perspective compression to make the background seem even more blurred.
[for reference, the sensor is 6.72mm diagonal.]
That being said this is little other then an experiment I did for fun.
I don't encourage doing something stupid like this unless you have a camcorder you really don't care about and you're really bored, because this is like polishing a turd, to say. Feed the camcorder the sharpest, fastest lenses and it will still rape the image with it's eye-gougingly bad compression and autoexposure.
Also that image with the 200mm mounted was a joke.
I never personally cared much for dof adapters as they are so cumbersome and you lose a ton of detail and light in the process [IMO], so I figured I'd do the logical thing and just take the horrible plastic lens out and mount a 35mm system lens right onto the damn camcorder.
Well, the crop factor is insane to say the least... Converts a 50mm into a 320mm lens, and turns my 200mm into a 1280mm [!!!] lens.
To those that say mounting a 35mm system lens won't affect the dof because of the sensor, I don't know where you're pulling that from because I have to stop my lenses down to F22 to get the same dof that I got with the stock lens, and the stock lens is faster then many of my lenses.
That is to say, you get some real nice [shallow] DOF, which is amplified by the crop factor and perspective compression to make the background seem even more blurred.
[for reference, the sensor is 6.72mm diagonal.]
That being said this is little other then an experiment I did for fun.
I don't encourage doing something stupid like this unless you have a camcorder you really don't care about and you're really bored, because this is like polishing a turd, to say. Feed the camcorder the sharpest, fastest lenses and it will still rape the image with it's eye-gougingly bad compression and autoexposure.
Also that image with the 200mm mounted was a joke.
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