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  2. 3. 16mm f/2.8 Wide-Angle
    Perfect lens for the job, and is autofocus. Get a UV multicoated filter and you're set. Also I use a 49-52mm step-up ring as a means of sunhood/protection

  4. Hi All,
    evidently you didn't know the Sony pancake 16mm... Several of us we been using it here at Empuriabrava for shooting tandems for over 4 years and is perfect for the job. Of course is an autofocus lens...
    Its 24mm equivalent, I think is the minimum angle to use, specially alongside a GoPro. It matches our Sony's CX410/430 with boss perfectly.
    I don't like the kit lens because it retracts, but is usable if you're in a budget, which shouldn't be the case if you are getting pay for shooting tandem customers.
    There's a manual focus 12mm available in several brands. But I like the autofocus because you can get interesting close ups of the passenger with a blurred background.
    And of course the crown Sony 10-18, which is expensive but light and very good.
    Good times to be a cameraman!

  12. For those who want to get a Sony video with the awesome Balance Optical Steadyshot and be able to use a Hypeye, the new models (Pal: CX610e/PJ530e/PJ540e/PJ610e and NTSC: CX540/PJ540), replacing the CX410/430 are not compatible with the VMC-AVM1 adapter. Only the bigger/heavier/expensive models are (Pal: PJ810e/PJ820e and NTSC: PJ810/PJ820, but on those you need to flip the screen or pull the viewfinder to power it on).
    Already bought a second CX410 as a back up before they're all gone...

  13. I think the quality of a gopro 3 is better than any Sony CX1** series, but for working or training, you're used to an steadier image, a hypeye, a big swiwable screen to check the footage on the plane or the ground, a good indicator of battery time remaining and memory, an easy to use osd menu, bigger batteries, etc.
    But, nothing is forever... ;)

  16. yes, the 5r is the Nex to get, the autofocus is better than in the 5 and the 5n, and getting good results using manual focus is hard. I also have the Nex6 and the electronic viewfinder is awesome! the future is here, no more slr's for most uses...

  17. The 15mm is a normal fisheye, which gives you 180 degrees angle diagonally, in a 3x2 format.
    The 8mm is a circular fisheye which gives you a 180 degrees angle horizontally and vertically, means a round image in the center of the 3x2 frame.
    Both gives you this resuts in a full frame sensor camera.
    In a cropped sensor camera, the 4,5mm gives you the 8mm (in a FF) results and the 15mm will give you something like a 21 mm lens.
    Check this chart...
    Hope its help.

  19. Everybody is buying CX410 (Europe's 430) here in Empuria, and blowing their minds off... I think is a game changer, like when the digital minidv cams appears in the mid '90's, no more tape flutter!. Now is no more image shake!
    Works fine with a filter on, hypeye and VMC-AVM1 adapter.
    To use a wide angle adaptor needs the Hypeye 2011 version, or will no focus.
    BOSS RULES!!!

  21. Hi Trunk,
    I have the CX210, and 3 Hypeyes that didn't work with it, kind of a bummer, they cost 1/3 of the camera price... Besides the wide angle focus thing, I can't get video out from its port, thats also is fixed on the 2011 version?
    Thanks!