Most Haunted
 

does anyone watch most haunted?
and what do they film th night scene with, i know it's a small consumer camera i think.

I can't say I watch it, or that I know what cameras they use, but I know they do fake a lot of shots. Things like green and additional noise in post to make a sequence look like it was shot with night vision equipment.

They don't have many scruples.

Most paranormal investigators seem to favor the Hi 8 cameras. I'll assume that Most Haunted does too.

Storm chasers seem to favour the Hi-8 as well, from what I've read. Must be good in lower light and with decent 400 line playback. I assume some models are favoured more, the ones with a bigger CCD. :-)

Most Haunted use little Sony palmcorders (not sure which model), but they're the upright type, with some sort of built-in light source. It tends to give a hot spot in the centre of the frame if people (never ghosts) get too close.
Apart from that, they use shoulder cams - either Digibeta or 570's with PAG lights as well as a few other lamps on stands around the locations.
As Martin said, they do indeed take liberties with faking "night vision" on cameras which certainly don't have it ;-)

Robin

Well, the show is entertainment after all.
but how can you tell the night shots from the faked shot, is it that the spot light effect isn't in the shot?

I memeber mtv had that "Scary" show where people ran through haunted places with the camera infreont of them. Wonder what they used

I looked in to a star scope for a dv camera, sheesh lots of $$$