Lower Noise in The Darker Areas

[David Saraceno]

I'd appreciate some advice on what scene setting parameters I should tweak to lower the noise levels in the dark areas of an outdoor shoot.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[THoff]

B Press, detail coring to let the camera smooth single-pixel noise in dark areas, and crush the blacks using the master pedestal.

[n8ture]

What THoff just said. :)

[ksteiger]

...but doesn't B press just raise the low- mids iin camera so you still get the same amount of noise? Perhaps I need some clarificationn on this as I do a lot of outdoor shooting. I mean after all its neither the Codec nor the camera circuitry ntroducing noise its the chips, right?

[dlang]

What the heck....I can't get rid of noise no matter what I try, Even in broad daylight I'm getting noise. B press, check, detail coring, check, Normal gamma, check. Is that as good as it gets?

[ProfessorU]

dlang, what are you monitoring on? When I ran HVX footage through my new cheap tube HDTV I was really scared, until I saw it on a real monitor.
Maybe post some stills if you're still having problems.

[ProjX v2.0]

Master Ped down to -9 or lower and you will start to see less noise but your blacks will be more crushed.

[Eljoninjo]

i think you loose way to much shadow details with -9 master ped but its all subjectiv. I usally never go lower than -3. I also had the problem some times with the blue channel when filming sky timelaps.