: There are ways of controlling your picture. The broadcast style and the amateur style. Technology may have changed but proven techniques of handling your picture by way of manual white balancing, restricting the amount of grain in low light, using scopes, etc. are still in full effect.
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Hmmmm.... You are correct: "There are ways of controlling your picture. The broadcast style and the amateur style." The original poster said, "Just got a new vx 2000 but i'm not familiar with camera settings. I want to shoot video under low light conditions out doors but don't know what settings are best for low light. thanks for any help." Which advice do you think is more appropriate - advising him to follow "pro" procedure and to forget that, under low light conditions outdoors, he needs every bit of help he can get to get a decent image, and advising him that he should immediately ignore the advantages of the VX-2000 in giving a relatively high-quality image at +12(+) db gain, thus reducing sensitivity by a very important few stops (and advising that he should instead use shutter speeds that halve the vertical resolution, while checking all this on a 'scope)??? Or follow common sense and use the available gain (and other means if necessary) to get an image... Advising essentially locking a VX-2000 at 0 (or even -3!) db gain for low light work is just plain silly! Makes me wonder about "pros"...;-) Anyway, enough of this - the readers can come to their own conclusions about the most practical way to go (just try both ways...! ;-).