[Sean Mchenry]

I recently purchased one of these cameras for shooting some HD video (I’m an old film guy with Krasnogorsk K3 and an Arriflex 16SB) but I too saw this issue until – I made sure not only was I in manual on the top dial but I locked the ISO at 200 (probably doesn’t matter what you pick as long as it’s a reasonable light loving number), set the white balance to a non-auto position AND, turned off the automatic ISO adjustment Nikon calls “Auto ISO Sensitivity control”. Set it to off. The last one was the killer for me. It hunts for a good ISO level it seems. Once I turned that off it quit adjusting the ISO totally and the video was solid for me and the level I shoot at. I saw a lot of issues with the levels changing and so on like some of you may be seeing. Once I learned what all had to be set to manual, it all worked OK from there.

Sean