Jacob Nielsen
Active member
When I shoot under low light conditions, I tend to rather shoot 1/50 with some gain than 1/25 (shutter off) - especially if there is some motion or panning. I think the EX's gain noise is rather fine and grainy which doesn't bother me. In fact the gain noise looks a bit like my DVX100's native noise which I also liked. But what do you guys prefer for the best filmic look? I think 1/25 gets too blurry.
Just out of curiousity - why did Sony go for 1/25 shutter off, where Panasonic chose 1/50? Initially you would think the EX1 is even one stop brighter in one of the progressive modes when you first look at the lcd - but soon you realize the shutter defaults at 1/25 and not 1/50 like the DVX. The EX1 is very comparable to the sensitivity of my DVX which is really good, however you can apply a lot of gain to the EX1 before the noise shows up, so realistically we are speaking maybe two stops more effective sensitivity.
Just out of curiousity - why did Sony go for 1/25 shutter off, where Panasonic chose 1/50? Initially you would think the EX1 is even one stop brighter in one of the progressive modes when you first look at the lcd - but soon you realize the shutter defaults at 1/25 and not 1/50 like the DVX. The EX1 is very comparable to the sensitivity of my DVX which is really good, however you can apply a lot of gain to the EX1 before the noise shows up, so realistically we are speaking maybe two stops more effective sensitivity.
