I am an owner of a Sony PDX-10 and let my good friend borrow it for a month's time for him to complete his feature. During this time, I have been wondering about capturing "stacatto" type motion (Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, and Banlieu 13 {FR}) by adjusting the exposure (allowing more light to enter) in Capture Preset and using a fast shutter speed 1/1000 and up. Using a fast shutter speed allows less light to enter into the camera but captures motion sharply. By customizing exposure in CP mode, I am able to let more light in and adjust the shutter speed in which there is no other way to do so w/o using a film camera. My dilema is that I will be shooting in the shadow of a building. True, I can move across the street into the sunlight but widens the area as opposed to a tighter space. Since this is a NO budget project, I have no insurance and makes control more difficult. Anyway, I wanted to know if anyone has attempted this? I have another two weeks w/o my camera and am itching to experiment.

Melvin Delvecchio - Bronx Cinematographer

I tried it and worked very nicely! Anyway, another suggestion I want to post is that if the image is too bright or you simply want to make the image darker w/o noise, when you bring the images into your edit suite, you can do so there.
The only editing program I know to use is Final Cut Pro 3 (Yes, I know we're upto 5!). When those images you want to darken are in the TIMELINE, you can DOUBLE CLICK to put them in the VIEWER > CONTROL - SINGLE CLICK in the VIEWER > COMPOSITE MODE > SUBTRACT. Presto! Darkened images.
Before doing this you can also use ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS, BATCH CAPTURE intended images, CURVES > and adjust the curve of the image(s) there. This is a fine tune method where you have more control than what is up above.
If you don't have Adobe PS, then, your only alternative is using the composite mode in FCP. Good luck to all.

Melvin Delvecchio - Bronx Cinematographer