In order to meet the future demand for high-quality yet economically viable creation of
high dynamic range video programs, the inventor proposes a method in which a recording mode is set in a
video camera (201) for setting the output pixel luminances in one or more corrected versions of output
video image sequences, comprising: - an operator of the
video camera moves to at least two positions (Pos1, Pos2) in a scene which have different illumination compared to one another and records at least one
high dynamic range image (o_ImHDR) for each of these at least two positions in the scene;- a color composition director that analyzes, for each of the at least two positions, the at least one captured
high dynamic range image to determine a region of maximum brightness and determines at least one aperture setting, a
shutter speed, and an analog
gain setting for the camera; - capturing a respective master shot (RW) for each of the at least two positions (Pos1, Pos2) using at least one of an aperture setting, a
shutter speed setting, and an analog
gain setting for the camera, and wherein the aperture setting,
shutter speed setting, and analog
gain setting are kept constant in at least the corresponding position for subsequent
image capture;- Determining at least one respective first corrected image (ODR) for the respective master image, which consists of mapping digital numbers of the master image to nit values of the first corrected image (ODR) by a respective luminance mapping function (FL_M), wherein the color composition director creates a form of such a luminance mapping function; and - Storing the respective luminance mapping functions (Fs1, Fs2) for the at least two positions or parameters that uniquely define these functions in respective memory locations (221, 222) of the camera;