HVX200 Grainy in Daylight???

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stew75

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Hey I've been reading about the graininess of the HVX's blacks alot on here, but mostly they talk about low light. I've had my HVX200 for about a year and a half and it seems like the blacks have been getting grainier and grainier.

I don't know if it was a setting that was accidently hit, but it feels like the gain is on when its not. And I was just outside shooting with the camera's shutter on 120, F.6, and ND at 1/8 and I still had zebra's so it was pretty bright outside.

When I brought the footage into FCP and watched it on a monitor all the blacks were noisy and everything else was fine.

I don't ever remember having this problem before and I know that noise is just a given with the HVX. So does anyone have an idea? I would hate to have to send it in. I will appreciate any advice or help you can give! Thanks.

Scene file settings:
Detail level: +2
V Detail: 0
Detail Coring: 0
Chroma: 0
Chroma Phase: 0
Color Temp: 0
Master Ped: 0
A.Iris Level: 0
News Gamma: Off (will not let me change)
Gama: Cinelike D
Knee: Auto (will not let me change)
Matrix: Cinelike
Skin Tone DTL: On
V Detail Freq: Thin (Will not let me change)
 
I have been having a similar problem.

try first to drop your master ped to like -4 and your chroma to -2 that should help

then if anyone else has an grain helpers I'd love to know


cheers
 
I have a question, are you using a polorizing filter.

I have found that some Plolrizing filters increase the grain and others don't just wondering if you were using one.

Try this with and without a polorizer and if you could post the result grain or less grain, I would be intrested.



DETAIL LEVEL: -3
V DETAIL LEVEL: 0
DETAIL CORING : 7
CHROMA LEVEL: 2
CHROMA PHASE: 0
COLOR TEMP: 0
MASTER PED: -8
A.IRIS LEVEL: -2
NEWS GAMMA: OFF
GAMMA : B.PRESS
KNEE: MID
MATRIX: CINE-LIKE
SKIN TONE DTL : OFF
V DETAIL FREQ : THIN

Have a great day.
 
When you set white balance do you hold on through the black balance sequence? Might be an idea just to re-set the black level.

G.
 
@ heavyG - Yes I've been black balancing as well. I thought that may have helped, but it didn't seem to do anything. You don't need to point at anything black when you black balance do you? It seems like the camera does it internally, but I could be wrong.

@ DM_rider - I did start using Black Press and noticed an improvement, but not by much.

@ mLane - Yes I did drop the master ped and that did seem to work a little, but I'm still having the noise.

@ Arrow - I've put the nex scene file in to try it out. I'll let you know what I get.

Again, sorry it took me so long to get back to you guys and I really appreciate all of your help. Any more advice would greatly be appreciated!
 
carlweston said:
how do you black balance the hvx200?
Click to expand...

Same button as white balance; you just keep holding it in after WB is done - it will then Black balance. During BB the lcd will go blank, then come back 'on' when the process is done.
 
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