Any major annoyances with the camera?
This may or may not be important to you depending on your usage. I find it rather annoying, although you can work around it. The auto-exposure function tends to turn up the gain a lot on dim scenes, making the image brighter, but grainy/noisy. Areas which should be true black look dark grey instead. Manual exposure mode can fix this, and if you are filming a stage/theater show, where typically the background is dark, you need to use manual exposure mode for the best results. This is an annoyance, because 1) you have to be skilled enough to judge proper exposure (the LCD screen is somewhat different in contrast level than a CRT), 2) you have to change exposure as the lighting changes, and 3) you can only change exposure in discrete steps, which means the adjustment will be visible as jumps in brightness on the final tape, if you adjust while rolling tape (which in a live performance generally you have to). It would be good if the camera had a auto-exposure “spotlight” mode, like my old
