: Your best bet is to use the camera's manual controls, both the white balance against a white sheet of paper and the lowest shutter speed possible (1/4, I think.) Try and keep the gain level at zero, if you still don't have enough light then increase the gain a notch to 3db.
I disagree with the above...
The VX-2000 picture is very good at higher gain settings, and unlike the VX-1000, you are better off taking the higher gain (+12db, or even more...) rather than the resolution loss from going below 1/60th (due to the loss of alternate fields and the time-smearing) - though once you have run out of available gain, by all means feel free to go to lower shutter speeds. On the negative side for the VX-2000: smooth late-evening sky can turn into a weird set of narrow parallel vertical bands with pulsing lower ends if it is not rendered black - not very attractive, alas... In general, the auto functions on the VX-2000 work very well, and I generally manually set only aperture and white-balance preset (plus the custom controls) to my preferences.