andybiz_2005
Well-known member
Dear All,
I have a DVX102AE PAL camcorder & was shooting a corporate conference recently. I had my camera on a tripod shooting the main speaker.
I had everything on manual : manual zoom, manual focus, manual iris. However, I noticed that quite often, when I turn the camcorder's iris wheel down slowly to decrease the exposure, I find that the f-stop numbers suddenly increase in large increments, even when I rotate the iris wheel carefully & slowly. For example : the current f-stop is f2.8 & I want to bring down the exposure slightly, so I rotate the iris wheel down slowly & deliberately to decrease the aperture size, but suddenly, the f-stop would jump from f-2.8 straight to f-9, or f-11.
I made sure my iris is set to manual mode & I'm shooting in 50interlaced mode. My camera is only 1 1/2 years old, has less than 100hours of shooting clocked on it & I keep it extremely well in it's own protective bag with those small bags that keep moisture away. I was running my camera entirely on mains AC supply, but this is the first time my manual iris is acting up wierd.
Does anyone encountered a similar problem with your DVX100A camcorder & found out what's the reason for this erractic behaviour?
Thank you & would like to hear experiences from you all here.
Andrew
I have a DVX102AE PAL camcorder & was shooting a corporate conference recently. I had my camera on a tripod shooting the main speaker.
I had everything on manual : manual zoom, manual focus, manual iris. However, I noticed that quite often, when I turn the camcorder's iris wheel down slowly to decrease the exposure, I find that the f-stop numbers suddenly increase in large increments, even when I rotate the iris wheel carefully & slowly. For example : the current f-stop is f2.8 & I want to bring down the exposure slightly, so I rotate the iris wheel down slowly & deliberately to decrease the aperture size, but suddenly, the f-stop would jump from f-2.8 straight to f-9, or f-11.
I made sure my iris is set to manual mode & I'm shooting in 50interlaced mode. My camera is only 1 1/2 years old, has less than 100hours of shooting clocked on it & I keep it extremely well in it's own protective bag with those small bags that keep moisture away. I was running my camera entirely on mains AC supply, but this is the first time my manual iris is acting up wierd.
Does anyone encountered a similar problem with your DVX100A camcorder & found out what's the reason for this erractic behaviour?
Thank you & would like to hear experiences from you all here.
Andrew
