G'day Keith,



16 Oct 96 22:32, Keith Richardson wrote to Bill Grimsley:



 BG>> deep field of view.  Ultrasonic was even worse, particularly

 BG>> when trying to videotape from within a car, where the bloody

 BG>> thing kept focussing on the windscreen instead of what you

 BG>> really wanted to film...



 KR> i had a play with one of the new canon hi-8s today, bloody fantastic

 KR> focus system.



It may be a bloody fantastic focus system, but it has fuck-all to do

with it being hi-8.

Hi-8 is a _tape_and_recording specifcation only. Unrelated to the

lenses or focusing system.



 KR> the camera looks at your eye position in the

 KR> viewfinder, and uses that to pick the part of the scene to focus on.

 KR> theres a little box superimposed in the viewfinder showing the area

 KR> being used, and it really does follow the eye. at less than $2k duty



I've heard of this focussing system, but never personally seen one.

They really do work huh?



Cheers,

Rod



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