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April 25th, 2008, 11:26 AM | #1 |
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Restrict gain to 9db on Sony Sr11/12
Got an Sr11 a couple of days ago and really liking it apart from it gaining up too much in low light, I prefer a darker more natural looking picture with less noise. I've worked out that in twilight mode the gain wont go above 9db.
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Good info Tony.
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Just for general information, the Canon HF100 seems to also do something like this in Cine mode, based on some other posts; and on an HG10 I used once, it seems to do it in spotlight mode as well.
It would be so much nicer if they just had a "limit gain to x dB" function, but at least you can get something similar with some of the scene modes. |
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Dave, I may be wrong, but I think the Sony won't alter the colors and 'look' in the Twilight mode like the Canon does in the cine mode. That could be significant to some.
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Most of the scene modes do shift something or the other in terms of exposure, aperture, shutter speed, or color, so if limiting the gain is all the Sony does in twilight mode, that would be pretty cool and a good thing to know. One of the things I like about the SD9 is the full manual exposure control which lets you fix the gain, shutter, and aperture independently, but after playing around with both, I might be leaning toward the HF100 because of the better image quality - better sharpness but poorer colors actually - so many tradeoffs. Too bad there isn't a Canasonic SD100 with the best of both! |
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It gives you full control of gain, shutter and iris although its a bit of a work around method. |
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I knew of that trick on my Canon HV20, but frankly it was too much of a pain to bother with. The twilight mode seems like a much easier method of limiting gain, but it sure would be nice if these companies would simply give us a gain adjustment or limiter. On my VX2100, I never allow gain to go beyond 12db.
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