Royal 0.3 shake

[garywainwright 0]

Hi guys,
I'm out at Perris at the moment and was asked to film some 8 way today. The guys wanted NTSC footage so they loaned me a NTSC cam (didn't make a note of the model but its a Sony SD with a 25mm thread). There was a sony 0.6 on the camera which i took off and put on a Royal 0.3 (with a 25 - 37mm step ring)

I was incredibly dissapointed with my footage of the first 2 jumps - there was a load of camera shake (looked like an OIS issue!)

I took the royal off and put the sony back on and the shake dissapeared (phew).

I haven't really used the Royal lens much before and was wondering if anyone else has noticed anything similar?

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[frost 1]

I've been using a .3 for several years now, among other lenses. On PC1000 and HC3. With adapter ring. Also test jumped RL .5 and .2. Nothing like what you describe

Just thinking... It's a pretty solid one piece unit... but could it be that one piece of glass is getting lose?

[diablopilot 2]

Did you make sure the "SteadyCam" feature was switched off?

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You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

[garywainwright 0]

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Did you make sure the "SteadyCam" feature was switched off?

No I didn't - i was actually thinking about that when i got in. I will try that today! Thank you.

Why would that affect the Royal lens but no other in my collection? Is it to do with the single element design?

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[DSE 3]

Not so much the lens design, but the way the system responds to it is a possibility.Usually, the more wide the lens, the less noticable any shake/vibration will be. So even with steadyshot enabled....it's odd that the wider lens has a bigger issue. Could be loose glass, could be the offset/step up ring creates some sort of circumstance.
Or maybe NTSC just doesn't like you.

[garywainwright 0]

I've done some more jumps with this lens now. Heres what i've found;

On my TRV60E the image is much better with the IS turned off (the image is fine with the IS on with other lenses)

On a PC10E (yes i still have one!) the image is much better with the IS off (again its fine with the IS on with my other lenses)

On a HC5E the image is fine with IS on or off.

All of these cams have EIS I believe.

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