More HV30 Footage - Very Colourful

[jaegersing]

Another video from my recent trip to Haifa. This one's a bit longer because there was a lot to see at the festival. Music was written last weekend and recorded on Sun 27 Apr.

Richard

http://www.vimeo.com/961617

 

[bigdaystudio]

hi jaegersing how is the lowlight performance of this camera?

 

[jaegersing]

It's not marvellous, because of the small single chip sensor, but still useable. I took footage last week in a dark pub. Most of the time I used an on-camera light, but was also able to get some good candid shots with the light switched off. As long as there is some light near the subject you can still get reasonable footage, although of course there is some graininess. The shots with the on-camera light turned out very clean and colourful.

Apparently if you have time to set up the shot, you can minimise graininess using the exposure lock (auto mode supposedly increases gain to max before fully opening the iris - with exposure lock you can get the iris fully open before adding gain as necessary.)

I have to say though, that if you are expecting PD170/VX2100 type low light performance you will be disappointed. I don't think any of the small HDV cams come close to those old workhorses.

 

[bigdaystudio]

just wondering can it come closer to dvx100?

It's not marvellous, because of the small single chip sensor, but still useable. I took footage last week in a dark pub. Most of the time I used an on-camera light, but was also able to get some good candid shots with the light switched off. As long as there is some light near the subject you can still get reasonable footage, although of course there is some graininess. The shots with the on-camera light turned out very clean and colourful.

Apparently if you have time to set up the shot, you can minimise graininess using the exposure lock (auto mode supposedly increases gain to max before fully opening the iris - with exposure lock you can get the iris fully open before adding gain as necessary.)

I have to say though, that if you are expecting PD170/VX2100 type low light performance you will be disappointed. I don't think any of the small HDV cams come close to those old workhorses.