Posted by Arny Krueger on 10/25/07 11:28

"Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
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> I've been touting the HV20 for quite a while now, and it is really a true
> bargain, a joy to travel with, and remarkably capable.

We use a HV20 at church, primarily as a 4:3 format camera with video output.
We don't use the built-in recorder.

The image quality was a fantastic upgrade over its predecessor, but I have
two complaints:

(1) The green square in the upper right hand corner, which I don't know how
to make go away.

(2) As a camera, it seems to have a lot of latency.

> Also quite surprising to me is the fact that Canon's wide angle (high def)
> adapter, made specifically for the HV-20, takes the lens out to a very
> respectable field of view but does not compromise sharpness, chromatic
> aberration / fringing, or shown vignetting. On a stable tripod with the
> wide angle converter, this little camera makes truly excellent landscape,
> panorama, and nature shots look as good and often better than anything I
> can see here off of commercial BluRay, HD satellite, cable, etc.

Any experience with the tele-adaptor? We use ours mostly to shoot at a
pulpit which is about 120 feet away, and the image quality at that distance
is reduced in quality (still worlds better than the predecessor), apparently
by operation at max zoom.

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