HVX200 REVIEW: second look

[Cees Mutsaers]

So what are we talking about !!!! A CCD needs light to be able to function. Anyway show me once a grab with low light and noice ( and I don't mean "darkroom" footage !!!).

With enough light you can easily create a relativly noise free image. The limitations come in when you don't have very much illumination. Also, those screens are so small that we can't really tell if there is noise or not.

 

[Patryk_Rebisz]

THe noise IS there. ANd it doesn't really have to do much with the way things a lit. For instance as you can see much of the shots have strong source of light on one side and very little (if any) fill on the other so the side without light IS noisy. It's especially apparent in the footage from the red room (bottom of the page) where bright red color somehow brings the noise out more. Still this is not the issue. As i said i was really glad to have such small and cheap camera that is capable of such beautiful color rendition and such wide latitude and resolution -- noise is there but it's a small negative being outweighted by the positives.

 

[DavidBeier]

So what are we talking about !!!! A CCD needs light to be able to function. Anyway show me once a grab with low light and noice ( and I don't mean "darkroom" footage !!!).

A CCD needs light to function. I didn't know that. Thanks for setting me strait. Bigger HD cameras with a 2/3 sensor can shoot in lower light conditions with less noise. The Varicam and CineAlter for instance. The Sony Z1 also handles low light better. The HVX200 is a great camera, I think the best of the under 10k crowd, but you're going to see more noise in shadows than you would with a 2/3 camera.

And, for the last time, the few grabs you chose are about 1/4 of full resolution. Of course when you display the image at a resolution that small you won't see the noise.