On 2 Mar 2003 00:31:36 -0600, Victor Ireland <vireland@nospam.com> wrote:

>I recently got a Sony VX2000 and have been getting familiar with it. One

>situation I can't figure out how to fix, or what's wrong is when I shoot

>my kids playing piano. The room is well lit and there's a white closet

>door in the background. It's a side profile shot. On recording, it

>looks fine in the LCD, but played back on the TV, there's a transluent

>narrow outline (like a mild ghosting) on the front side of them, and it

>looks like the video drops abruptly to complete black in shadowy areas

>(like under their chin, depending on the light). Depending on how their

>head moved, it occasionally looked like their head was outlined in black

>sharpie. Not right...

>

>Any idea what's happening? How to fix the shot, if that's the problem?

>It's new, so if it's broken, I can get it fixed under warranty.

"H" has it right - you have probably set the sharpness

all the way up. I recommend for general use (well,

almost ALL use, really...;-) that the sharpness be set

either one notch up (my preference, since it adds a

bit of crispness to the image with minimal increase in

artifacting [and the "outlining" you describe is then

still less than it is at the "normal" setting in the

other available 3-CCD "handycam"-style DV camcorders]),

or at the center position... Reducing the sharpening to

minimum should remove the outlining completely, if

needed, but at the cost of image "crispness"...