Low-Light sample- Boa (snake)

[Steve Nunez]

Hi guys, I see allot of people saying the camera isn't too good in low-light- but I'm finding it somewhat decent and have posted a clip of a Dumeril's Boa shot with a single lamp a short distance away...it's handheld ("IS" OFF) so forgive the slight shake and I've compressed it (H.264) and present it here at 1/2 resolution- but this should give a fair representation of what it shoots like with poor lighting.

http://stevenunez.com/hosted/boa.mov

[Luis A. Diaz]

Originally Posted by Steve Nunez

Hi guys, I see allot of people saying the camera isn't too good in low-light- but I'm finding it somewhat decent and have posted a clip of a Dumeril's Boa shot with a single lamp a short distance away...it's handheld ("IS" OFF) so forgive the slight shake and I've compressed it (H.264) and present it here at 1/2 resolution- but this should give a fair representation of what it shoots like with poor lighting.

http://stevenunez.com/hosted/boa.mov

Amazing, well done. I too find that this camcorder does exceptionally well under regular room lights wth barely any perceptible noise.

this is not a "daylight" only camcorder by any means.

Luis

[Daymon Hoffman]

Geezus! B E A UTIFUL! What shutter speed (or similar settings) was that shot at Steve?

[Steve Nunez]

Thanks guys, it was Aperture Priority at 3.6 and I could have opened up 2 more stops for more light but liked the darkened background- so to say it's poor in low light sorta baffles me. It also has very little noise in the dark areas- another plus to CMOS sensors when compared to CCD's.

It's an amazing camera only flawed by it's omission of a mic input- but I'm sure it's next incarnation will have one as the demand seems overwhelming.

If the XH A1 produces better video- and I'm sure it will, Canon will surely dominate the HDV market.
(I actually like the video the HV10 produces better than my FX-1)

[Lee Wilson]

Originally Posted by Steve Nunez

Thanks guys, it was Aperture Priority at 3.6 and I could have opened up 2 more stops for more light but liked the darkened background- so to say it's poor in low light sorta baffles me. It also has very little noise in the dark areas- another plus to CMOS sensors when compared to CCD's.

(I actually like the video the HV10 produces better than my FX-1)

Great stuff !

Was it behind glass ? (I hope so !)

Why only 15 fps :(

Also I agree with your FX-1 comment, I have not owned a FX-1/Z1 but have used them a fair bit and have much footage on my hard drive I have shot with a friends Z1 and - to me at least - the stuff coming out of the HV10 is better.

[Steve Nunez]

It was not behind glass....I compressed it to 15fps to save file size.

Thanks for the comments- the camera is indeed impressive.

[Lee Wilson]

Originally Posted by Steve Nunez

It was not behind glass....I compressed it to 15fps to save file size.

I was playing around and I must say that After Effects does a great job at generating the 'missing' frames and returning your footage to 30fps !

http://www.filefactory.com/file/dafb87/

[Daymon Hoffman]

Steve,

Would love to see the native m2t file for a second or two of that snake footage :)

That footage does look stunning. *watches clip again*

[Steve Nunez]

Daymon, sorry I deleted the original M2T files after conversion to HDV.