IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

Many thanks, Dave and Tom, for your help. Dave: 1. I’m working in SD. 2. Yes. 3. I know this is one solution to the issue. I have a couple of programme that can burn ISOs, but I'm still interested in other solution options I can use to burn a movie file. 4. No problem with the menu making, but if I ...

I'm using Pinnacle Studio 14 Ultimate to edit video, but there is a bug - that is, burning dual-layer 8.5GB DVDs with over 55 minutes of video content doesn't then play in normal dvd players. (I’ve got 93 minutes of video to burn.) This isn't a settings issue or disc problem as different brands of d...

Congratulations, Jan, on creating a brilliant, new, user-friendly website for the IAC. I whizzed around it with child-like enthusiasm as I found myself coming upon many familiar but reassuring, essential features alongside numerous hidden treasures just waiting to be discovered. I'm sure it's going ...

Thanks for the XL2 link, Chris.

Great stuff!

Ian

Chris, the £70(approx) Nikon adapter lens to accommodate the XL2 (among others), seems a very serious option. (So why, one wonders, would anyone therefore want to pay around £450 for the Canon EF adapter?) The Nikon adapter is incredibly, relatively cheap – presumably, it would usually cost much mor...

Sounds ingenious, Dave! Alas – or maybe fortunately? – I’ve reached a point in my life where I want everything to be fuss-free wherever possible: i.e. go online, order a piece of kit, fit it to the camera, and off we go. The penalty I pay for that, of course, is that I fork out much more than I perh...

Thanks Chris. I have three Canon camcorders and for the XL2 I use, like you, a dedicated Canon XL 1.6x lens. At £396, with p & p, it cost a little bit more the 2.2x lens at £16.95 from ebay! But even so, with the extender fitted, it is not really powerful enough for big wildlife close-up shots. ...

I suspect, John, that once we set our mind to it there'll be loads of second-hand lenses out there (not to mention new ones) suitable for our respective purposes! I just haven't had the time yet to get down to it. Maybe I should make that my resoluition for the coming year. I've certainly been think...

Oops! In my post I left oput a 2 - my camera is a Canon XL2.

Ian

By coincidence, I was just about to post a similar request as John's as regards filming wildlife subjects on my Canon XL which has a x22 zoom as standard. But this is insuffiecient for distant shots of many secretive wildlife species. Can anyone recommend a lens for such work? I, too, would be prepa...

Tom, you’ve finally convinced me – stay clear of filters. I’ve had several Canon camcorders over the years: my current ones are an XL2 (22x zoom,) and a Legria HV40 (10x zoom). I must confess that about a year ago I noticed that (re the XL2) that images of, say, corn blowing in the wind or leaves on...

You’ve certainly given “filter-or-no-filter?” doubters like me, Tom, much uncomfortable food for thought! You have also seem to have gone against the Holy Grail of all still-camera/camcorder advice columns in saying “DON’T use a UV filter” which, as you say, most of us use purely as a projective mem...

Good point, Leif, regarding the possibility of vignetting on wide-angle shots. And, Dave, you've raised what I've been pondering on for the past year or so: the fact that most of the effects that on-camera filters achieve can amore or less be approximated in the post-production editing stage. Starbu...

Thank you, Brian, for clarifying this.

I'd still love to see a good feature in FVM about the use of the filter, for those not particularly well versed in the subject.

A couple of easy questions for the video-camera literate on which I’d appreciate clarification. 1. What rules apply when a UV filter has been attached as a permanent fixture to a camcorder lens and, for some shots, one wants to fit, say, a circular polarising filter or a starburst filter or a colour...