Yes, I use ISO 50 whenever I am shooting video outdoors. I find it gives a better effect that ISO Auto. There is also ISO 100 and I can't remember after that...

So there is an ISO 50 setting for video? great. I wonder why the specifications page for the HD1 says that for video the lowest ISO setting is 200... Must be a missprint.

Paul

Paul,

Actually no, there is ONE ISO setting menu. which you access by pressing the menu button to the right. it starts at iso 50, there have been a good bit of discussion about this, and I do believe that the concensus was that this means iso50 for still but is iso200 for video at the same setting, each change upward clicks both values up one notch... which could explain the seemingly higher noise level in video than stills...

However, judging from the lack of sentisivity at max, iso 400 which according to this should be iso 1600, I would say that it is a typo, the video is pretty consistent with a slightly over rated iso400 and not more.

Naturally this is just my personal opinion and not based on any scientific research. ;-)

Bo

www.bophoto.com/HDV

Yeah, Bo's right... a long time ago we worked it out and it turned out that the ISO settings were not realistic.

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Lots of people have disappeared, so here is to reaching out to you:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=83398
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=87867