Here are some samples of chromatic aberration (purple & green fringing around edges) from the stock Fujinon 16x lens of the JVC HD100 camera.  These shots were extracted directly from the camera using .PNG file format, for no recompression artifacts.  Click each picture to download the bit-for-bit identical .PNG extraction from the frames.

The duck on the left was at the edge of the frame, and has a strong purple fringe on the left, and green on the right.  Notice the duck on the right, which looks acceptably sharp.  Also, notice the strong MPEG-2 artifacts causing blockiness throughout the water.

This shot was taken after the ducks had moved.  These are the same two ducks, but now the one on the left is more in the center of the frame, and the one on the right is at the edge of the frame.  Note the one on the right now has excessive chromatic aberration.

The purple fringe on the left is quite strong, but the green fringe on the right (again, near the edge of the frame) is even more noticeable.

To the left, there's a bright purple fringe on the duck's back. To the right, look at the strong purple fringe around the person's shoe heel.  The heel was in the lower right corner of the frame when this was shot.

Above is perhaps the worst example.  The purple fringe is so strong and so thick that it almost looks like a double image.  To see the full 1280x720 frame, click here.

Another example of a thick bright purple fringe around a high-contrast transition.  Note also the green outline around the feathers at the base of the tail.

The above shot shows purple and green fringing around the high-contrast branches, especially on the right edge of the frame (this extraction is from the right side of the frame, so the rightmost branches are actually at the very edge of the frame).  There's green and purple fringing on most of the branches, but most noticeable on the branches on the right. This shot also provides an example of excessive mosquito noise and blocking that happens when HDV is pushed too far.  The rippling pool surface in the background pushed the HDV compression further than it cares to get pushed, and the result is blockiness and noise .  Note: this is *not* JPG compression, as you can click on the picture and see a lossless reproduction of an extraction of the original, straight-from-the-camera file.

Finally, if you want to see the chromatic aberration in action, click HERE to download a Windows Media Player file that shows a rack focus from the back of a wine glass to the front of the glass.  This shot was taken with the stock Fujinon lens, and it's important to note that the light reflections in the glass were pure white -- there was no purple or green at all visible to the naked eye.  As focus shifts, the aberration causes either a green or a purple fringe to appear around the highlights, and to grow depending on how out-of-focus the highlight is..

None of these shots has been resized or "zoomed in" or magnified, they're all pixel-for-pixel extractions from the native 1280x720 frame.