"Guy" <nospam@thanks.com> wrote in message news:bk9%a.3950$z7.667462@wards.force9.net...

> I guess David we are not going to agree. It is completely alien to me to

> use auto controls because one is not in control of the camera. I am not

> stick in the mud at all. It is just not how it is done here. I did not

> appreciate you were a one man band and work soooo many cams so I can

> understand perhaps why you do what you do. All power to you. I have never

> come across a one man band wedding video producer. Even the small outfits

> near me use minimum 3 operators. You maust be making a fair old margin by

> not paying other operators?? :-)

Yes...., and yes....;-)

As I point out in the VX2000 review, though, these cameras as a class

(and the VX2000 in particular, with its excellent auto controls) permit

(actually, encourage, since their manual controls are not great...) a

different approach to camera operation from that of the shoulder-mounts

(with their better provision for manual control, but inferior auto controls),

which is auto control with biasing - and with these it is actually more reliable

than trying to use manual focus with unsharp finders, manual apertures with

non-continuous diaphragm shifting, manual WB when it is not well set up

in the camera for neutral results, etc. (The review is at:

www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/sony_dcr-vx2000.htm.) BTW, this is a process

that happened in still photography earlier: pros resisted using AF and AE,

but eventually realized their advantages for making good-quality images

faster (especially as the AE and AF accuracy improved in the cameras).

I resisted using auto controls with still cameras longer than most, but now

I would not return to MF and ME except with stationary subjects and/or

camera - I can get more good images (and more good footage in video)

relying on good AE and AF (and WB) then when not (and the minor

errors [which would be present in manual operation also] can be corrected

in post, where it is most practical to do it...).

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David Ruether

d_ruether@hotmail.com

http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com