(yet another) HV20 upside down

[Moritz Schwind]

My rig - nothing particular:

- Brevis with Canon FD lenses
- 60cm rods
- HV20 mounted upside down
- cheapo 8" car-tft as monitor
- (extremely) cheap tripod (saving for a Manfrotto)

=> Fun!

Only thing worth mentioning probably is the "homebuilt" spacer tube
between the achromat and the (one piece) step-down ring, made
from an old, battered 72mm UV-Filter (just took out the filter-glass).
Without this I had severe problems focusing on the diffusor.

[Joseph Moore]

Moe,
Do you find that monitor actually has enough res to get HD focus?

I'm taking delivery of my Brevis next week and I'm really sweating how I'm going to focus. I can't rely on the built-in LCD at all, even without the adapter. I also don't have another $1k to spend on a monitor right now.

[Moritz Schwind]

It takes some practice, however after about one week of casual use (university is taking most of my time...) it is absolutely possible to focus with it - however there's still lots of headroom for improving image quality on the monitor as it is only connected via composite right now - it has however inputs for s-video and vga as well.

Has anybody here some hints/ experinece on converters that i could use for hooking this thing up (either component => s-video or component => vga oder hdmi => vga) ???

The monitor's panel itself has a physical resolution of 800 x 480 - same as all othe on camera monitors used for HD monitoring...

Anyways - you should still be able to pull focus with composite input, as the HV20 has focus assist, that allows you to zoom into the image for perfect focus alignment...

[Joseph Moore]

Try this to go component from the camera to VGA on the monitor:

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-11z ... -1d2s.html