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Seems to me like a good case for using manual focus! Place an object (or subject) temporarily on your empty wall, let autofocus do its job, then switch instantly to manual focus so that you lock focus as is. Simple and quick: just assign FOCUS to the manual dial, then depress the button (page 31 of ...

A 2-part article describing the pros & cons of camcorders vs. DSLRs: DSLRs, “Democratic Technology” and The Cost of Bokeh: Part 1 DSLRs, “Democratic Technology” and The Cost of Bokeh: Part 2 (" bokeh " being another name for shallow depth of field) The point is tough and comes from a f...

Is that the one? Panasonic Begins Pre-order on Professional Full HD 3D Camcorder

$21K is a hefty price. We still have time till all this comes into consumer range.

I like the 3 sensors in such compact camcorder, and the relatively large lens and wide zoom as it seems. However unfortunately, being able to record 60p isn't really going to help you, if it's not supported by editing software (this can change) and by the blu-ray format (that isn't going to change s...

Picture Motion Browser is the software that Sony ships with their AVCHD camcorders. As I understand, it's mainly useful to: Merge together video files when continuously-recorded video exceeds the 2GB limit of FAT32, and therefore has been split by the camcorder, Convert AVCHD to MPEG2 when you do n...

I was always puzzled by x.v. colour, for that very reason: how does your display device know which color space you were using when recording? I read in Wikipedia : " xvYCC is not supported by DVD-Video or Blu-ray, but is supported by the high-definition recording format AVCHD and PlayStation 3 ...

Interesting... The first plane seems to 'pop up' a bit with shallow DOF, but I think it's no comparison with binocular 3D - which, even with lack of motion parallax (which I didn't know of - thanks for the info) is what I would really call 3D. Looking at your picture, without all the text explanatio...

I remember people 'smacking' it firmly on the bottom side with the palm, with the same purpose of getting rid of dust on the sensor. So if you've cleaned it already, not many options left. Silica gel as said, or send to the repair shop.  

Interesting. Being careful about iris aperture absolutely makes sense, and we'll never know why the FX7 was so tolerant about it (or why maybe we both failed with our tests at that time). Anyway, what's important is that you found the right setting for your AX2000 now. Enjoy!

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