Posted by Harry Kiri on 12/27/82 11:33

<mmaker@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> Harry Kiri wrote:
> > Sure enough, the left and right edges were masked off in the
> > viewfinder and a pretty reasonable image resulted.
>
> I didn't realise the FX1 could shoot 4:3, I thought only the Z1
allowed
> that. If you can actually shoot 4:3 without downconverting you might
as
> well do so.

Looks like in 4:3 mode thats all they write to tape, so I guess they
mask the CCD's sides off. That gives them more bandwidth than
compressing the full 16:9 image.

Regards,
Hughy

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