Exposure Menu
From the EXPOSURE menu, you can control how the camera reacts to lighting conditions.
SHUTTER: This setting controls the behaviour of the electronic shutter. In a nutshell, it controls how long the camera will expose each frame. The longer that the electronic shutter is “open”, the more light it will let in.
We recommend leaving this on AUTO (this will adjust the shutter speed automatically). Only on rare occasions will AUTO not prove the best option - however, these are so infrequent as to be almost unmentionable.
BRIGHTNESS: How light/dark the images coming from the camera will be. Unlike the SHUTTER setting, this won’t affect how much light the camera needs to see to create a high quality image. Rather, it affects how the camera processes the images once they’ve been captured.
Increasing the BRIGHTNESS setting can be useful if you have an unusually dark monitor/television, or are trying to view images in a very bright environment. Typically, the default value is fine unless you have specific problems you’re trying to overcome.
AGC (Automatic Gain Control): Gain is a fancy term for amplifying a video signal. It works in a similar way to amplifying music – the higher the gain, the louder/brighter your images will be, but so will the background “noise” (in video terms, “noise” refers to the random, grainy speckles that appear in images).
When should you decrease/increase the gain? Well, probably never. The MIDDLE gain control is reliable and quite accurate. Only in the event of extremely unusual lighting conditions or a very
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