"Joe Shapiro" <google@joeshapiro.com> wrote in message

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> No, you don't have a troll. And the questions can make sense in the

> "normal" world. Why has usenet gotten so abusive? It's really quite

> sad.

>

> Anyway, I'm attempting to make a poor-man's version of the Mini35 -

> see www.mini35.com. This is a $7000 gadget that gives a DV camera the

> depth-of-field one gets with a 35mm camera.

>

> Quite clever really. And it even makes sense in the normal world.

The web page was too obnoxious to spend time with, but if

this is what I think it is, you also need a way to prevent the imaging

of the ground-glass texture in the video picture. I think this is done

by eccentrically spinning the focus surface - not an easy thing to

do while keeping good alignments for accurate focus. $7000

could buy you a good used video camera with a much larger CCD,

giving some of the same limited DOF effect with better results...

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David Ruether

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http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com