'oh,, and I want to know how you do that famous hitchcock ..or was it speilberg .. where the camera zooms in on the face but at the same time opens its field of vision or somehting and the background like moves in at you' barrie, Try this. Frame a figure's face. Start off at a focal length of say 300mm and gradually widen it out to about 50mm. Simultaneously, (this gets tricky), move the camera towards the face, while keeping the framing exactly the same. That's how it's done, but you may need to experiment quite a bit. Also, try the same thing in reverse, starting at 50 and going to 300 while moving the camera away from the face. These figures are arbitary. You'll need to find the focal length that works best for the situation, but anyway it's just done by combining zoom and movement. mac