Best HVX200 setup

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morgster

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Own 2 HVX200s and I'm looking for the best way to set the camera up. Had the cameras for over a year and I have spent lots of time messing around with settings that get the best out of the camera... ie vivid colours, good range etc etc.

Wanted to ask opinions on how to set it up to get that best 'film type look' for 720p24. Usually shoot the camera as a second camera to the likes of HDX900 and want to match as close as possible.
 
My personal opinion (and thats all it is) for film like settings in the HVX are the following:
Opening up the shutter just a tad over 180d, 200 seems to be a sweet spot for me. The rest of the look is really subjective to the film. If I am shooting in a non Cine gamma I like to turn down the detail setting to around -3 to try and lower the sharpening a bit. Detail Coring at around -4 seems to help lower noise in solid colors somewhat. Lowering the master pedestal (first make sure you have set-up set to 0 and not 7.5% under the camera menu) crushes the blacks a bit but helps lower noise in the shadows and gives you nice solid blacks, -3 to -5 seems to be the sweet spot for that setting.

A 35mm Adapter will do wonders to the film as well ;)
 
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