Low Light with HVX: How to match DVX 100 in low light

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ejkosinski

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I just shot a wedding with my new camcorder HVX 200 in miniDV format at 60i, and with the exact same settings that my partner shot with the DVX. His camera is so much lighter than mine. Is there a mistake I made, or is my camera this bad in low light? I bought this camera based on the assumption the settings were identical to the DVX 100 based on a Abel Cine Rep. I must be doing something wrong, no???
 
These 1/3" HD cams are about a 1-2 light loss over their SD counterparts, so while I have no cold hard experience with the HVX, I would say this is normal.
 
The HVX is not only much slower in 60i, but if you are shooting in SD, it also has bad aliasing issues which you should be very careful of , if you are trying to use it for a professional purpose.
I do not present my HVX as an acceptable 60i SD camera.

if you are matching it to a DVX100 or 100A in progresive it can get very close, but the image is not as noisy on the HVX. Throw your HVX in 6DB gain and the images may be almost the same though you might need to adjust the Chroma very slight on on the HVX to match.

- Lenny Levy
 
Yea but the problem is compounded but the 60i. the HVX is even slower in interlace modes. 1080i included.
 
I don't know, but isn't shooting in dvcpro 50 a problem solver for the aliasing problem?
 
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