She didn't tell me the truth...

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Zab

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I think my sweet litle baby lied to me :-( The other day I was shooting a videoclip under fluorescent lights with my dvx. I was looking at the LCD monitor of the camera and I could see how bright the colours were, specially the red one. I turned the croma phase to -7 to reach a cute greenish look. I was very happy with the images but, to my surprise, when I went home I found that the red wasn't so bright and the faces of the musicians were very green, too much. So I'm a bit dissapointed with the lcd and even the evf. Should I always take with me a professional tv monitor to get the proper image? ???

Has anybody found this problem or something similar?
 
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Yes, Zab, that little LCD lies. It's a little bigger and better than many LCDs, but you still can't trust it.

Always best to have a TV monitor with you. When you don't have a monitor, it's good to stick to some basic settings you're familiar with and do the tweaking in post. One thing nice about the DVX is that it is inexpensive enough for many of us to own one. That we we can get to know our baby well enough to avoid those problems in the future, even without the TV monitor.
 
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If you cant have a monitor on hand just use the defaults and quit trying to tweak everything. In post you can Color Correct till your hearts content.
 
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That might be the best option but I thought that one of the good things of having the DVX100 was that you could shoot almost without postproduction... You know, making all the image changes before shooting. Anyway, I will consider the option of buying a small tv monitor :-/
 
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I find that the dvx-100 shoots nice video. However, I always run my footage thru post production. Color correction and level adjustments will always improve the quality of your video. In my opinion.
 
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I don't have mine yet, so maybe this is a stupid question. But why don't you just look through the view finder? That's what I always do on my current camera.
 
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On a camera like the DVX, the viewfinder shows even less detail and information about what you're shooting than the LCD. That doesn't mean it doesn't work, it just means sometimes you'll see a shot and think it's great, in focus, exposed well and then watch it on a monitor an see all sorts of flaws in the focus, exposure, etc.

By the way, the new DVX100A has some focus assist thing that makes the viewfinder better. In any case, the more you know the camera, the more you'll know what you're really seeing through that viewfinder.
 
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Hmm. How do you supply power to the monitor? A wall jack? Which means that taking one with you on an outdoor shoot is pretty much useless unless you've got a socket nearby and an extension cord, or a generator?
 
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A few monitors can be battery-powered, like the Sony 8045Q (if you have NP-1 batteries).
Or you could use a small monitor like that with a battery belt and an inverter. Small monitors usually draw around 60 watts of power, so a decent battery belt would get you a few hours' runtime.
 
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[quote author=Everdene link=board=Events;num=1083686968;start=0#1 date=05/04/04 at 10:35:55]that little LCD lies.[/quote]
Does that go for all LCDs? What if you get one of those 5" - 6" LCDs and take it with you. Is that what everyone meant when they said "monitor"? because I had jumped to the conclusion that everyone meant monitors as in "tv-style" screens that you have to lug around.
 
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Yes, Barry Green is speaking of a good ol' fashioned CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitor... NOT an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) like on the flipout of your DVX.
 
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