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Christopher Glaeser
November 6th, 2006, 02:59 PM
Has Canon published or has someone measured and posted the ISO sensitivity of the XL-H1 sensor at each gain setting?

Best,
Christopher

Barry Green
November 6th, 2006, 09:35 PM
I don't know if Canon has published their figures, but when we tested it we found the base sensitivity is 200.

Each 6dB of gain = a doubling of perceived sensitivity, so at 6dB = 400, 12dB = 800, etc.

Jonas Nystrom
November 7th, 2006, 01:06 AM
Hmmm... according to another forum it is 320.

John Richard
November 7th, 2006, 09:54 AM
We were having trouble determining which was the exact ISO for using an incident light meter. We were trying to keep our key/fill ratios on the actor's faces consistant.

It would be nice to know the correct ISO correlation for light meter use.