Shooting Question

although you will want to use a slow shutter speed, make sure it is twice the frame rate.

avoid cranking the iso way up. that's how you get grainy images.

open up the aperture.


and have fun!

obviously mess with shutter speed, apature, etc. but does any one have any experience getting it dialed in as well as it can? I know its not the best camera for this situation but its what i have to work with.

well we don't know exactly what it will be like, so it's hard to be more exact.

sorry dude didnt see that you had responded when i posted this. Looked kinda rude but thats not how I intended! haha thanks for the advice man! appreaciate it.

How do I make sure the shutter speed is twice the fram rate?

Well you're probably going to be shooting 30p or 60i, so the frame rate is 30 so make sure your shuttle is as least 1/60.

The HV30 will automatically give you gain in a low light situation, if you don't know what gain is, its the camera amplifying your image to make it brighter, but you loose a lot of quality. Theres two ways to avoid gain on the HVs

1) Make sure your camera has a memory card in it. Pressing the photo button half way will show you the shutter speed and f-stop of the camera. Start lowering the exposure of the camera and checking the shutter and aperature. Once they start changing, you have eliminated gain. I know that sounds confusing, but its not that bad

2) Put the camera in spotlight mode or sunset mode, they both have no gain, sunset mode will oversaturate and give you a warm color temperature. Unfortunately, you dont have as much control over the camera in these modes

cool, i will mess around with it and see how the shots come out tonight!