Some Low Light H1 clips...

[Elton]

here are a few clips I took Fri. night with the H1. I was testing low light capability. They are all 24F, 1/48th, -3db, manual mode using manual focus. The peaking focus assist helped me in these conditions.

www.homepage.mac.com/mrbarlowelton

Mac: VLC player
PC: VLC or latest WMP

Comments?

[stephenlnoe]

Hi,

Thank you for posting Elton. Excellent color in your clips. I like! I brought the clips into Liquid and it read them as 24fps interlaced (bottom field first). I don't know why but that's how the program reported it. A problem I see is the highlights are way to hot. So much so that you're getting some smearing here and there. If you can bring the exposure down some you should have a gorgeous picture from your camera.

Thanks for sharing the clips.

[Elton]

Hi,

Thank you for posting Elton. Excellent color in your clips. I like! I brought the clips into Liquid. Liquid read them as 29.97 (I don't know why). Anyway, A problem I see is the highlights are way to hot. So much so that you're getting some smearing here and there. If you can bring the exposure down some you should have a gorgeous picture from your camera. I put up what I'm seeing in the color corrector which is what I've seen from all the XL-H1 clips (extra hot highlights).

Thanks for such a cool response! Yes, blown highlights seem to be the easy mistake with this camera. Again, this was literally my first day with the camera and I wanted to see how sensitive it was at -3db. The H1 is amazing for a 1/3" camera in the low light dept. I probably should've lowered my exposure and set it to 0db. Also, I'm going to try a similar scene with all kinds of custom adjustments (master pedestal, knee, black stretch and press, detail and sharpness, color matrix, etc.)

I used a program on the Mac called HDVxDV and I think it just captures the 24F/60i stream without recognizing the flagged frames. Still, it's hard to see pulldown frames in the VLC player for some reason.

When I demux it in MPEG Streamclip it makes it a 24p clip too.

[ShannonRawls]

These clips were recognized in Sony Vegas 5 as "23.976fps progressive".

That's cool that you can capture HDV footage with a MAC and work with it on a PC. If only FCP was able to understand .M2T files natively, then we'd have a truely cross-platform codec to work with (unlike .AVI and .MOV).

I hope that helps,

- ShannonRawls.com

[Emanuel]

Thanks Barlow!...

...and also 'cause this time you have PC files, too!

A) One question: Is it 24F, right?...(Cine) gamma, also?

It's possible to follow some opinions regarding this footage at this post here (http://www.dvxuser.com/V3/showpost.php?p=398192&postcount=49), too. B) Where we ask for more footage. I'm adding, more low light, as well. Highlights, too. And so on...

Until now, regarding night footage, it's possible to say that XL-H1 is BETTER than any stuff that I saw (period) - too much HVX noise@low_light.

[Emanuel]

Shannon...what a shame!... :engel017: ...you are the first one that I know with this jewel and after that comparative stuff, we haven't (yet) seen more...

...except words...

<PS> Well, you probably figure that I'm also joking :) 'cause we all know that it's a pleasure read your reports...but here @dvxuser.com, too!

[pastywhiteboy]

Some pretty impressive footage... I can't believe you actually had the guts to take your brand new $10k baby into the middle of a bunch of spraying water!

-pasty

[ShannonRawls]

Ahhhhh Emanuel, don't beat me up too bad. I don't have the time to go out and shoot stuff and upload it. But I have plenty of time to respond to posts here and there. Additionally, if I did go out and shoot some stuff and it sucked big time, it would be my fault, and I AM NOT HAVING THAT!!! *smile*

We'll let the experts test it out tomorrow. I'll be there shooting the behind the scene footage and taking snapshots of them working on the lab rats.

- ShannonRawls.com

[Elton]

Some pretty impressive footage... I can't believe you actually had the guts to take your brand new $10k baby into the middle of a bunch of spraying water!

-pasty

I really wasn't quite as close to the water as it looks. Most shots I was slightly zoomed.

It's my daughter that's crazy!!

[pastywhiteboy]

I really wasn't quite as close to the water as it looks. Most shots I was slightly zoomed.

It's my daughter that's crazy!!

100 yards would've been too close for me!!! Heh, your daughter looked like she was having fun... she looked as if the water had her complete and undevided attention. Thanks for the footage, by the way. It looks like the camera really does an excellent job. Have you found anything you don't like about it yet?

-pasty

[GaryinCalifornia]

Looks like the footage is no longer there...

Can you relink it...

Thanks Gary

[Elton]

I'll put it up for this evening Gary, but I'm also working on some SDI clips I captured into DVCPRO HD.

It's quite telling...

[James Gerber]

Any chance of posting a few frame grabs?

thanks,

jg

[Elton]

Any chance of posting a few frame grabs?

thanks,

jg

Yeah, still working on it. Check back in an hour or two.

[Elton]

There are a couple of stills up. Their uncompressed tiffs, even though the extension is .pct.

www.homepage.mac.com/mrbarlowelton

[Digigenic]

Thanks for sharing those clips, it isn't that much of a surprise to me to see such low noise from the Canon, after all, they do have the colonel's recipe for that in their DSLRs.