On 20 Jan 2003 15:20:14 GMT, luckybear58@cs.comxx (Luckybear58) wrote:

>>For web-cam use,

>>set the camera exposure up some to compensate...

>>BTW, google searches do wonders, as do searches at:

>>www.nikonlinks.com/ruether/posts

>thanks for the advice...i will definitely check out your posts. i have done

>much google searching and contacted sony a few times...they told me to film in

>brighter light...wow!

>

>you see i already have the exposure set to the highest setting...and still the

>pic is dark as can be. almost black. and this is not the case with my analog

>camera (sony ccd-trv85 Hi8) shooting the exact same footage!?!?

It should not take the exposure set all the way toward

lightest to do the job - there must be insufficient light,

as Sony suggested, though it would need to be quite dim

to show almost nothing (see for low-light comparisons:

www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/camcorder--comparison.htm). If

there is little picture change as you move the manual

exposure toward the "+" end of the scale, this indicates

that you are already "maxed out" for exposure, and must

add light to get a lighter picture. Turning off the

stabilizer of Sony 1-CCD cameras may provide a bit

brighter image, though... (I "joke" with clients who

like to hold their events in almost no light [for

"atmosphere"...] that "photography" means literally

"the recording of light", and that without light, there

will be no useable image...;-) BTW, older cameras used

larger CCDs and fewer pixels, both of which increase

sensitivity, all else equal...