Jac Kee

Jeff, I apologise for leaving out the fact that the ASA values are based on factory settings, ie, 500%, 4.5 gamme curve, etc. To just reaffirm, the values I have posted above are EXACTLY based on the Factory settings. The reason for my suggestion was to share with everyone in here, a viable base ASA for the Varicam. Jac

Aye, the filter wheels affect the ASA value of the Varicam thus you have a variance of such. The following I'm posting are the EXACT and TESTED values that Mr. Zensyo Sakamoto (Varicam's founder) have created for the Varicam : 1B : 640 1C : 400 1D : 250 2B : 160 2C : 100 2D : 64 3B : 40 3C : 25 3D : 16 4B : 10 4C : 6 4D : 4 The Value for CC filter A is the same as B. Optics affect the overall ASA value for the Varicam whose base is tried and tested at ASA 640. Take your incident meter readings then correspond it with an 18% Grey chart. Your 'Y-Get' would value at 18% definitely. Jac Kee P.S. Check out this Singaporean film that was shot on the Varicam, Cages @ www.cagesmovie.com . Thanks.

Hmmm... it might be an overkill for your budget, but you could try the Varicam with normal ENG HD lenses. My reason for recommending this camera at the end of the day is the fact that Varicam can shoot at different frame rates. Thus you can do slo mo of up to 60 frames per second. Its just a suggestion, for i'm not sure of your budget of the shoot. Cheers Jac

Hi Thomas, I'm from Singapore and found the scene files to be unusable too, but actually, there's a way to 'tweak' these scene files for the NTSC machines. What I actually did, was copy a scene file from my SDX900 and paste it on to my computer. The scene files are text based, so editing them isn't that tough. The first three lines are the most important part to the scene file as they dictate what the camera reads. So simply, what you could do is this... 'NTSC' scene file: Card Ver 1.01-00 AJ-SDX900 M Ver 0000.1 From there, edit the text file's first three lines to this. 'PAL' scene file: Card Ver 1.00-00 AJ-SDX900/D908 M Ver 0000.1 I cannot gurantee if this works for you as my camera originates from Asia. What you do, in case my edited text file doesn't work, is to actually save a Scene file onto a SD card and check the file's first three lines. If they are actually different, then modify the DOWNLOADED 'NTSC' file's first three lines like the example I have given above with the scene file from YOUR SDX 900. I hope it wasn't too confusing :) Regards, Jac