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RCA camera

    09-Sep-88 02:36:05
Sb: #10513-RCA camera
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Jay Gross 72517,326
Well…I presume that's a 2/3" diameter circle…and thus would hold a rectangle with a 2/3" diagonal…or about 18mm. How about this: take a 35mm SLR and look thru the viewfinder, now set up a video camera beside it and zoom in or out until you have the same field in the viewfinder (or as close as you can get depending on the aspect ratio) and then read the focal length off the zoom? That ought to give you and idea what a normal lens for a video camera should be. (Oh…forgot to mention, put a 50mm lens on the SLR)