backlight

ramkuma

ramkuma

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It seems to me that the backlight feature is not necessary when you can just manually adjust the iris. Am I on the right track with this statement?
 
Yeah, this is one of those software additions to make the camera more consumer friendly, I have yet to hear anyone that has ever used it.
 
I forgot it was even there. I guess you could you use it to ball park you exposure before fine tuning.
 
If you're going to use manual iris, then of course the backlight function is useless; but if for whatever reason you need to use auto-iris, that's when backlight may become more useful. You could also accomplish it without using backlight, by using the A.Iris scene file setting.
 
Speaking of a.iris. I use it to get close the usually fine tune with the wfm and manual iris. I find it comes in a bit hot so I have it set to -2. Could be hot since cine-d/v like the exposure down a tad.

Sometimes if it is literally a run and gun I'll use auto iris till I can get my hand to the manual control. Hard to do sometimes when you are actually running.

Was much easier to run with a shoulder mounted ENG camera. I could handle zoom, focus and iris with my right hand while pushing people out of the way with my left. lol
 
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