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Lighting
Useful styles
All video cameras seem to be more at ease with softer rather than harder lighting. This may well be because as the recordable tone range is limited and only encompasses five stops of exposure, or a lighting ratio of 32:1, they are prone to burning out highlights more quickly than film. They also do not fade from dark greys gracefully into black in the same way as film but once they reach the limit of their shadow recording ability, clip to full black. The digital cameras are, however, much better than analogue cameras at controlling the progress into the limit of both the highlights and the blacks.
It is possible to program the digital cameras via the parameters on the page labelled Level 4 which includes Master black, ...
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