Accessories to take advantage of the camera

Century Accessories for HD Lenses
Schneider Optics' new Century line of HD lens accessories complements Sony's PMW-EX1 camcorder . These optical attachments offer great image clarity, while allowing greater effects to be achieved with the camera than with the original lenses alone.

Accessories for the PMW-EX1 include a .6X HD wide-angle adapter (#0HD-06WA-EX1), a .75 HD wide-angle converter (#0HD-75CV-EX1), a 1.6X HD teleconverter (#0HD-16TC-EX1), an HD super fisheye adapter (#0HD-FESU-EX1) and the extreme fisheye adapter (#0HD-FEWA-EX1).

Century Pro Series HD lens accessories employ advanced optics to produce high-resolution, low-distortion, higher-contrast images. Elements with multi-coverage provide sharp images, free of unwanted distortions or chromatic aberrations. The units are equipped with a bayonet mount for quick and easy installation and removal of the front of the camera lens.

 Lighting
Balcar
Roundy, by Balcar, is a ring of fluorescent light that is mounted around the camera's optical axis. Thanks to the benefits of this type of light, Roundy produces direct lighting without any shadow or dots, typical drawbacks of standard ENG lamps. It is designed for interviews, commercials, shorts and still shots.

Its 40 watts give more options to make focal stops and, therefore, offer greater control in the depth of field. The user can adjust the light intensity with the included dimmer , in order to preserve the atmosphere of the image, without changing the temperature color.

It has a lighting range of up to four meters and can be mounted on the camera shoe or on its main arm.