DV-camera lense help needed!

psdf · June 29th, 2008, 12:33 PM

Last year I bought a Panasonic NV-GS320 camera. It's great otherwise but the area the lense is able to capture is just pathetic. I was wondering if it's possible to get somekind of a wide-angle lense for it for a bigger picture. Cause I don't know anything about lenses so I don't even know what model to start looking for. Here are two pictures I took of the camera and I'm hoping that someone can tell me what kind of a lense to buy (if it's even possible).

cameraman288 · June 29th, 2008, 02:12 PM

i have wide conversion lenses on all of my sony minidv's, and im positive that your lens barrel has grooves for accesories. just take a peak at the white writing on the barrel and see what size you need. if you really want to go cheap, theres little plastic lenses allover best buy.

as for the sony's, ive always bought the vcl series wide conversion lenses. the carl zeiss lenses magnify so much, a wide angle lens is almost compulsary pmsl you may be able to grab up one of these if any of the sony's will fit, but the vcl's are around $120 each.

psdf · June 29th, 2008, 06:44 PM

Thanks a lot. I found a lense for about 150 euros, gonna have to think if it's worth it. Also I managed to find out something incredibly simple and I'm pretty f*cking pissed for not noticing it earlier. All this time, the camera has been in 16:9 mode. When I put it to 4:3, there image is much bigger images/smilies/tongue.gif

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Koppel · June 29th, 2008, 08:02 PM

This place will surely help you out.
http://www.pana3ccduser.com/forumdisplay.php?f=9

psdf · June 30th, 2008, 02:05 PM

Okay so I found all these cheapo lenses on eBay and whatnot but did a search on a local computer store before bidding on anything. They had this for 28 euros. It's a few euros more expensive than anything on eBay but whatever, not worth the hustle.

(Notice "Made in Japan" for a guaranteen in quality!11)

http://thumb.phyrefile.com/a/an/anonymous/2008/06/30/IMGA0327.JPG

16:9 stock

http://thumb.phyrefile.com/a/an/anonymous/2008/06/30/IMGA0330.JPG

16:9 with Raynox 0.7X wide angle lense

http://thumb.phyrefile.com/a/an/anonymous/2008/06/30/IMGA0328.JPG

4:3 stock

http://thumb.phyrefile.com/a/an/anonymous/2008/06/30/IMGA0329.JPG

4:3 with Raynox 0.7X wide angle lense

I'm pretty happy with the results. The snap on locking mechanism is kinda shitty, but otherwise it works okay.

cvrefugee · June 30th, 2008, 04:28 PM

Now you can film porn!

EDIT: That's not very nice.

http://pic.phyrefile.com/a/an/anonymous/2008/06/30/Capture.PNG

cameraman288 · July 2nd, 2008, 07:29 PM

for me, the wide angle lenses are great for the minidv's from sony. but yes your camera is probably native 4:3 and like the majority of consumer cameras it sort of takes and gives with the resolution images/smilies/smile.gif

glad you got a good lens!!

June 29th, 2008, 12:33 PM	#1
psdf Joined: Dec 1st, 2007 Last Online: September 23rd, 2008 Posts: 152 Rep Power: 7	DV-camera lense help needed! Last year I bought a Panasonic NV-GS320 camera. It's great otherwise but the area the lense is able to capture is just pathetic. I was wondering if it's possible to get somekind of a wide-angle lense for it for a bigger picture. Cause I don't know anything about lenses so I don't even know what model to start looking for. Here are two pictures I took of the camera and I'm hoping that someone can tell me what kind of a lense to buy (if it's even possible).

June 29th, 2008, 06:44 PM	#3
psdf Joined: Dec 1st, 2007 Last Online: September 23rd, 2008 Posts: 152 Rep Power: 7	Thanks a lot. I found a lense for about 150 euros, gonna have to think if it's worth it. Also I managed to find out something incredibly simple and I'm pretty f*cking pissed for not noticing it earlier. All this time, the camera has been in 16:9 mode. When I put it to 4:3, there image is much bigger .

June 30th, 2008, 02:05 PM	#5
psdf Joined: Dec 1st, 2007 Last Online: September 23rd, 2008 Posts: 152 Rep Power: 7	Okay so I found all these cheapo lenses on eBay and whatnot but did a search on a local computer store before bidding on anything. They had this for 28 euros. It's a few euros more expensive than anything on eBay but whatever, not worth the hustle. (Notice "Made in Japan" for a guaranteen in quality!11) 16:9 stock 16:9 with Raynox 0.7X wide angle lense 4:3 stock 4:3 with Raynox 0.7X wide angle lense I'm pretty happy with the results. The snap on locking mechanism is kinda shitty, but otherwise it works okay.

June 30th, 2008, 04:28 PM	#6
cvrefugee Joined: Aug 16th, 2004 Last Online: 04:19 AM Location: Corona, CA Age: 28 Posts: 3,297 Car: 2005 Scion xB Rep Power: 53	Now you can film porn! EDIT: That's not very nice. Last edited by cvrefugee; June 30th, 2008 at 08:53 PM.

July 2nd, 2008, 07:29 PM	#7
cameraman288 Joined: Jun 9th, 2008 Last Online: October 4th, 2008 Location: houston texas Posts: 31 Car: you dont wanna know Rep Power: 0	for me, the wide angle lenses are great for the minidv's from sony. but yes your camera is probably native 4:3 and like the majority of consumer cameras it sort of takes and gives with the resolution glad you got a good lens!!

June 29th, 2008, 02:12 PM	#2
cameraman288 Joined: Jun 9th, 2008 Last Online: October 4th, 2008 Location: houston texas Posts: 31 Car: you dont wanna know Rep Power: 0	i have wide conversion lenses on all of my sony minidv's, and im positive that your lens barrel has grooves for accesories. just take a peak at the white writing on the barrel and see what size you need. if you really want to go cheap, theres little plastic lenses allover best buy. as for the sony's, ive always bought the vcl series wide conversion lenses. the carl zeiss lenses magnify so much, a wide angle lens is almost compulsary pmsl you may be able to grab up one of these if any of the sony's will fit, but the vcl's are around $120 each.

June 29th, 2008, 08:02 PM	#4
Koppel Joined: May 30th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Estonia Posts: 123 Rep Power: 16	This place will surely help you out. http://www.pana3ccduser.com/forumdisplay.php?f=9

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