[MacDV] Re: bright faces

[Jim Asherman]

On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 05:18  AM, Charles Martin wrote:

>> From: "Gordon B. Alley" <galley at texas.net>
>> My Canon ZR 40 (miniDV, ~US$500) has White Balance adjustment. You
>> can select  indoor or outdoor, or you can set it using the classic
>> white-card method.
>>
> This is specifically what I was referring to. On many sub-$600 cams, 
> you have ONE control, often called "White Balance," that acts as both 
> white balance AND exposure control. There might be some additional 
> options in the camera's "software" but it doesn't offer any sort of 
> really fine control.
>
> I'm far from an expert on all video cameras, so if I'm wrong I'll 
> happily stand corrected -- but the last time I shopped for low-end and 
> high-end video cameras, the low-end (consumer) ones had IMHO totally 
> inadequate control over white balance and exposure, often treating the 
> two things as one "option."
>


You are wrong and omitted the part of the origianl post describing the 
autoexposure compensation control. On inexpensive cameras MY experience 
was no white control but always AE setups aand and exposure control, 
somettimes called Iris.
being two different things they are not one option.
Not trying to fight with you.
Jim