Can anyone tell me if there are any camera/lens combinations that allow
for an increased horizontal range. Like wide angle, but up and down
instead. Or do I just have to turn my existing video camera(with wide
angle lens) 90 degrees on it's side in order to get the kind of range I
need in the shot?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

Search***@mail.con2.com wrote:
up and down? you mean vertical?

caph***@gmail.com wrote:
Show quoteHide quoteThat's correct.

Since wide angle lenses are for getting a more horizontal view into the
picture, I wasn't sure if the common way of instead getting a more
vertical view entailed turning the video camera on it's side.

If there are lens available for this, I had never heard about it.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

On 27 May 2005 17:59:54 -0700, Search***@mail.con2.com wrote:

You are misinformed.   Wide angle lenses increase the vertical angle
of view just as much as the horizontal.

Maybe you're thinking of  anamorphic lenses, which squash widescreen
format on to normal format media.   You then have to unsquash it when
displaying.   This was typically used to shoot widescreen movies on
35mm film.  The projectionist had to install a special lens  Sometimes
he forgot :-)

The same idea is sometimes used for video.  Less now, as we have true
widescreen format available.    Google "anamorphic" for lots of info.

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