F350/F330 Auto Iris issues

[Greg Boston]

Originally Posted by Alister Chapman

The auto Iris on my Digibeta and DVCAM camcorders worked fine, the F350, even with the latest firmware just dosn't behave as I would expect.

Alister, have you had a chance to throw a different lens on it yet and see if that helps? I swear mine (latest firmware) isn''t doing this or else I didn't replicate your scenario properly.

If you would like to create a user file and email it to me off list, I could load it and see what happens. I too would like to find out whether it's camera or lens or just the right combination that's causing this.

-gb-

[Matthew Ernest Adams]

Originally Posted by Steve Connor

That's not true - I shoot a lot at airshows and it's impossible to manually expose when you following aircraft at 300 mph acros 270 degrees of sky in variable lighting conditions. Every other camera I've filmed with from a BVW 400 to an HDW 750 has the ability to slow the iris response down and it works very well.

The 350 simply doesn't do it correctly

Sorry for the bad info. I do not have much experience using auto iris.

[Steve Connor]

I've been using Alisters camera over the summer and so far the results have been the same with 3 lenses including a 2/3rd HD lens.