Missing shutter speeds?

[Vathian]

Hello all! I am the proud new owner of an HV20 and am greatly looking forward to being an active member of this community.

I start off my relationship with all of you with a question that has been bothering me since I first turned on my camera.

I have it set to 60i, mode: P and am attempting to set my shutter speed to 1/120 as displayed by many of the available slow motion tutorials but it doesn't seem to be present.

My available speeds are:

8
15
30
60
100
250
500
1000
2000

I seem to be missing many speeds that are mentioned on this forum, most noticeably 1/48 and am curious as to how I enable these?

Hopefully this question isn't ENTIRELY "noobish" and I look forward to hearing from you all!

[voodeux]

I'm pretty sure you won't get 1/48 unless you're shooting 24p mode.

[SystemZERO]

Are you in tape mode or photo mode? Also, are you in cinema mode?

[CycleWriter]

Do you have a PAL or NTSC model? Available shutter speeds are slightly different for each model. Please, always do a search before posting a question. Welcome to the forum.

[Ian-T]

Voodeux is correct. From the shutter speeds you mention it seems as if you are using the NTSC version in 60i mode (as you mentioned). If you want 1/48 you need to have the cam in 24p mode.

[mbwkrause]

It always helps to read the manual too...

[CycleWriter]

It always helps to read the manual too...

What? Heaven forbid!

[scotthampton]

Make sure your video editing software can work with 24p footage...I made that mistake shooting in Cinemode with 24p, but I use Final Cut Express, which doesn't support 24p!