Re: Screen shots from JAG

Unfortunately Steve, this example doesn't make the point you'd like it to make.

The HDV shot is obviously a handheld POV shot from the perspective of the door gunner in a vibrating Huey chopper. Not only is the focus on the gun, as was already mentioned, but the vibration of the chopper and camera are obviously distorting the image of the boat as well. And, the focal length is obviously not set at wide-angle, which would have minimized the apparent effects of the vibration. Thats not a fault of the camera.

On the other hand, the HDCAM shot obviously isn't a POV shot, and it was shot with a fairly wide-angle lens, thus minimizing the vibration. In fact, for all we know, the camera may well have been on a gyro mount.

In any case, instead of showing how inferior the Z1 camera is, these examples really only point out the possible advantages of shooting with a wide-angle lens from a vibrating helicopter.

DRW