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XHA1 - Low Light Testing
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Stephen, what preset etc. here? I also think the 18 looks useable. The 12db is actually a nicer picture to me, it seems more like the actual light in the situation. Good stuff.
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The shot of the restaurant with the lights in the windows was the REALITY presets, however the rest were just straight A1 (no preset). |
Hey Stephen,
Just as a side note, it your final product is HD, then 18 will be pretty noticeable, but if your downconverting to standard DVD at the end, a lot of the grain will disappear. At 12 the grain almost entirely disappears on a down convert. For a lot of my stuff I would prefer to deliver a standard progressive Dvd than a true HD product since I'm always shooting in low light. |
The final product will be a SD DVD, however I will also upload it to the web in HD. I think I might have to go with 18db just to get enough of the image... or would it be better to shoot with a lower gain in camera and then adjust brightness/color in post?
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I feel a lot more confident in delivering my footage on a DVD now than I was before, since I had been editing the whole thing in HD. Thanks! -Dmitry |
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I didn't want to make a new thread so I am adding on to this one.
I shot weddings with my A1 and the other videographer has sony pd170 (or 150) and his image on low light does not lose the saturation of the color. I Am not so worried about the image being so grainy (12db does pretty good job with lower shutter speed) but I have noticed contrast, saturation of the color looks so washed out on my camera. I am trying to fix that on post (i edited , too) and there is a limit... I have wedding this weekend and I hate to hear "JJ, your camera looks too different from our camera. use ours (or rent one)" cause imho PD170 is too small to handle, and I love my canon. Any preset tricks for that? I sometimes use vivid color, but on low light, it does not help so much... help, please? |
Thanks for sharing. I looked at your other videos too. The images are quite amazing! What preset did you use to shoot the wild fire and Jack's rehearsal?
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If memory serves, those two were shot with the REALITY preset! -Steve |
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