View Full Version : Low light test footage
Thomas Lew
09-27-2008, 10:40 AM
Got the camera yesterday and by the time I had it figured out it was dark.
Took this footage in a room lit with 2 lamps and poorly at that. Everything came out pretty clear imo. Footage is of my brother juggling 5 balls in his boxers.
http://www.vimeo.com/1826257
delaro
09-27-2008, 10:44 AM
Got the camera yesterday and by the time I had it figured out it was dark.
Took this footage in a room lit with 2 lamps and poorly at that. Everything came out pretty clear imo. Footage is of my brother juggling 5 balls in his boxers.
http://www.vimeo.com/1826257
edit: WHOOPS didn't see the test footage sub-forum move this please my bad!!!
waoo. nice.
Justyn
09-27-2008, 10:46 AM
Congrats on getting the camera Thomas. I am looking to pick one up soon too. Would be great to see you shoot this juggling with a fast shutter so there's no motion blur.. I know this was low-light test. Maybe shooting it outside would be great. I'd love to see how it handles fast motion, a fast shutter, and see how it resolves color and such.
Are you cutting on FCP? use that Panasonic conversion software?
Thomas Lew
09-27-2008, 10:53 AM
Congrats on getting the camera Thomas. I am looking to pick one up soon too. Would be great to see you shoot this juggling with a fast shutter so there's no motion blur.. I know this was low-light test. Maybe shooting it outside would be great. I'd love to see how it handles fast motion, a fast shutter, and see how it resolves color and such.
Are you cutting on FCP? use that Panasonic conversion software?
I am using FCP 6.0.4
As far as panasonic conversion software... I put the card in the card reader which connected to my usb port, then did the log and transfer and FCP imported the clips via pro res 422. I don't think I'm using any conversion software so I guess my answer is no.
seven.b
09-27-2008, 11:15 AM
wow... that was low light!??? Nice footage thomas!
ilauzirika
09-27-2008, 11:45 AM
Nice showcase of this camera's low light capabilities!! Thanks for posting
Thomas Lew
09-27-2008, 11:47 AM
What I love about it is that the blacks and outlines are still very very clear. I see no grain whatsoever and the "scene" was lit only by 2 regular lamps with shades
Everts
09-27-2008, 11:52 AM
Panasonic avchd to dvcprohd is for pc only.
oh... and thanks Thomas for sharing
ecking
09-27-2008, 12:10 PM
Footage is of my brother juggling 5 balls in his boxers.
After your description I was reluctant to watch the video but clicked it anyway. If that's just two lamps that's pretty good lowlight.
Nathyn
09-27-2008, 03:42 PM
The obvious next question is, is this 24p or no?
-Nate
Mike Harvey
09-27-2008, 03:58 PM
I believe it said on vimeo it was 1080i/30fps
Any chance someone could shoot lowlight in the progressive modes?
Thomas Lew
09-27-2008, 06:19 PM
I believe it said on vimeo it was 1080i/30fps
Any chance someone could shoot lowlight in the progressive modes?
I will shoot some 24p tomorrow and I'll do low light if I remember.
Justyn
09-28-2008, 11:48 AM
Panny really bones us Mac people with their stuff and it's sad since more than 50 percent of the people who buy their cams edit on Macs.. It's not a problem when you are on intel macs, and thankfull I have an intel laptop, but my main editing station is a G5 so I won't be able to convert footage on this comp, but I was hoping that Panny would have softwear as a work around. So, for now, I'll have to convert on the laptop and bump the pro res over. What a pain!
1080/30 would be progressive by the way.. I would also like to see some 720p 60 as I think that has a ton of appeal with this camera.
Mike Harvey
09-28-2008, 04:15 PM
1080/30 would be progressive by the way.. I would also like to see some 720p 60 as I think that has a ton of appeal with this camera.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the proper nomenclature supposed to be (resolution)(progressive or interlaced)/(framerate) i.e. 1080i/30 or 720p/24? I know a lot of manufacturers call regular interlaced 30fps "60", but like calling 1080p "True HD", it's not necessarily correct. Otherwise 1080i/60 is 120 fields/second. I don't know of and camera that is capable of doing that, at lest not in this price range. It just seems to me calling something 1080i/60 when it's 30fps is inconsistent and ultimately confusing. Or is the HMC150 actually capable of shooting 1080i at 60fps?
You know, I'm going to start a new thread on this.
frubsen
09-28-2008, 04:28 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the proper nomenclature supposed to be (resolution)(progressive or interlaced)/(framerate) i.e. 1080i/30 or 720p/24? I know a lot of manufacturers call regular interlaced 30fps "60", but like calling 1080p "True HD", it's not necessarily correct. Otherwise 1080i/60 is 120 fields/second. I don't know of and camera that is capable of doing that, at lest not in this price range. It just seems to me calling something 1080i/60 when it's 30fps is inconsistent and ultimately confusing. Or is the HMC150 actually capable of shooting 1080i at 60fps?
You know, I'm going to start a new thread on this.
1080i/60 = 60(59.94) fields per second which plays back equivilent to 30(29.97) interlaced frames per second, although don't get that confused with 30(29.97) progressive frames per second.
1080p/60 = 60(59.94) progressive frames per second
there techically is no HDTV standard of 1080i/30 because that would infer 30 fields per second.
there is however 1080p/30 and 720p/30 which is 30 progressive frames per second however this does have the same look as 1080i/60.
Thomas Lew
09-28-2008, 09:49 PM
Took some footage in 1080/24p at night will upload in a few minutes.
where did the footy go? :(