As usual with these guides, the general philosophy is to record as much information as cleanly as possible to the tape. There are many ways you can change the look of your pictures in camera, but unless you’re sure you’re going to get exactly the final effect you want, then you’re probably better spending time on lighting and composition. There are some important settings you need to get right, but after that, the ‘750 probably needs less ‘fine tuning’ than equivalent standard def. cameras.
1.Quick Start
2.Differences between the 7590P and 730S
3.Files and Menus
3.1Menus
3.2Files
3.3Layers
3.4File Structure
3.5Loading Files
4.Camera matching
5.Frame Rate
6.Shutter
7.Gain
8.Outputs and monitoring
9.Options
10.Audio
11.Filters
12.Detail
13.Matrix and gamma
14.Lenses
15.Back focus
16.Viewfinders
17.Menu list
If you’re asked to use the ‘750 or ‘730S at short notice, and don’t have the luxury of preparation time, here’s a very short list of things to check to get you in the right ball park for getting sensible pictures:
•If you have a memory stick you wish to use: load an all file.
The all file overwrites all previous settings in the camera with your preferred settings.
•If you don’t have a memory stick, go to the file menus and set user file, reference file and all file to ‘ALL PRESET’
This is effectively a factory reset.
•If you’re putting everything to all preset, after doing so, you may wish to turn on the preset matrix and set it to matrix 2
These two adjustments will get you from the factory preset condition which is a little de- saturated and over detail corrected, to a useful general purpose shooting condition.
•Choose a frame rate.
•Set the shutter to 50Hz if shooting at 25P.
All these operations are covered in more detail in the following sections.
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