DVX100B images seem darker than 100A

[Zanzibar19]

Hey everyone,

New to the boards here, and I have a stumper. I've been shooting an online series with an associate's 100A for about a year now, and we love the damn thing. I recently bought two lightly used 100Bs and mixed them in with the shooting along side the 100A, white balancing all three at once, etc.

Now the headache: The images we're getting from the 100Bs seem darker and more muted in color than the 100A we've been using, even though we matched settings and were shooting under the same light-set up, white balance, etc.

I've reset both DVX100Bs to factory specs, but the problem persists. Is there something I'm not understanding about the differences in the image processing/CCDs/whatever? Is this a known issue, or is there some setting in some deep menu I'm missing?

I've included images below that are roughly from the same angle at the same moment.

Thanks
C

Here's the DVX100A

Here's the DVX100B:

 

[Joshua Provost]

The A looks darker to me.

 

[evar]

I really cannot tell from the two images you've posted... And, I dont know what kind of settings you are using... But I can see where you would say from your perspective that one image is lighter than the other. But, if you look at the image like a camera would... the brightest spot in both images is the same level of brightness. I would say the edge of the curly guys shirt and the white around the frame for the A. and for the B, the reflection of the light on the wall. What the camera does is takes the lightest spot as its measure of what should be the lightest - and adjusts the rest of the image accordingly. If in both shots, the brightest object was of the same brightness - they would match.

An extreme example would be a room with a single window, with full sun coming through. With two cameras with either the exact same settings, or both cameras on auto - for one camera pointing towards the window, the rest of the room would appear dark. and if the other camera were pointing elsewhere, with another object as the brightest in the frame - though less light relative to full sun - though the camera would make that object have the same level of light on tape; its light level being closer to the objects around it, you would be able to see the rest of the room clearly.