On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:02:40 GMT, d_ruether@hotmail.com (Neuman - Ruether) wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 02:34:34 +1200, Brian
>wrote:

>>I own a Sony TR580E 8mm video camera and are hoping to upgrade to a
>>digital video camera.
>>One of the weakness of the camera is recording someone in the shade on
>>a bright sunny day with bright sunlight in the background.
>>The camera see's the bright background and reduces the exposure making
>>the person appear darker and more difficult to see.
>>I can use the backlight boost on the camera but this causes the
>>background to become completely white as it now is over exposed.
>>
>>Do modem digital camera's have this problem ?
>>Are there any camera's such as Sony that don't have this problem ?

>Excess picture contrast and resultant inability to show
>good shadow and especially highlight detail with overall
>"normal" exposure is a characteristic of one-CCD cameras,
>though some 3-CCD Mini-DV cameras also suffer this image
>defect (increased contrast increases the appearance of
>sharpness, useful with cameras with more limited true
>resolution). Underexposure helps with the highlights
>somewhat, but at the price of losing even more shadow
>detail. If you can, take a look at the image of the
>Sony VX2000 compared side-by-side with any one-CCD model
>(and some popular 3-CCD cameras, too), and see what a
>good tonal range can do for image quality... BTW, this
>and 28 other video image characteristics are described
>(most with examples) at:
>www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/vid_pict_characts.htm

Forgot:
www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/camcorder--comparison.htm
shows comparison daylight images from 5 Sony imaging
types, and the loss of highlight information in the
one-chippers is quite obvious when compared with the
TRV900 and especially VX2000 3-CCD images...