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Gary Burlingame · May 30th, 2008, 10:18 PM

Good call, Boyd--my bad. I guess I hadn't used the VX2100 enough to know about accessing the gain manually in the method you described. So you're right--it should perform just as well in low light as the PD 170. Another difference between the two, however, is that the iris wheel on the PD 170 adjusts the brightness level in smaller increments than the VX 2100 (it actually has twice as many increments as the 2100), so when you are using the iris wheel, the changes in the brightness level will be much more subtle than with the 2100. But if you're going to be cutting away to another camera anyway, this probably won't affect you. It's the single camera shoots that will pose more of a challenge.

May 30th, 2008, 10:18 PM	#10
Gary Burlingame Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bellevue, WA Posts: 28	Good call, Boyd--my bad. I guess I hadn't used the VX2100 enough to know about accessing the gain manually in the method you described. So you're right--it should perform just as well in low light as the PD 170. Another difference between the two, however, is that the iris wheel on the PD 170 adjusts the brightness level in smaller increments than the VX 2100 (it actually has twice as many increments as the 2100), so when you are using the iris wheel, the changes in the brightness level will be much more subtle than with the 2100. But if you're going to be cutting away to another camera anyway, this probably won't affect you. It's the single camera shoots that will pose more of a challenge.