On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:08:59 +0100, Moving Vision <mv@movingvision.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <gYria.4497$k21.426204@news20.bellglobal.com>, RGBaker

><gb@bakerfilms.com> writes

>>> Thanks for help on syncing 3x PD 150s but while I've got people who have

>>> experience with this camera, is there a way of adjusting the auto iris so

>>> that it sets about 1/2 stop less than it reads now. i.e. I think it runs

>>> too hot.

>>Yes, that's what the AE shift button on the back of the camera is for -- I

>>don't recall if it has half stop increments, but I think so.

>As Mr Baker says the AE shift is the way, but no half stops. We go for a

>-1 preset.

I do too, but I think "-1" actually is 1/2 stop... Think

of the items in the custom controls as having "notches"

along their scales - and most of these mean nothing

relative to the +/- numbers used (though in the case

of auto exposure bias, the "notches" are 1/2 stops...).