I think...

Here we go.

http://vimeo.com/2225618

Streaming does it no justice. Just d/l the original file. I like it. There is some banding, but that's expected. Other than that, I can't complain. The blacks aren't as crushed as you may think. And more importantly, no noise...using only a 28mm 2.8
 
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Car3o, what is your D-lighting setting?

(if it has any effect on video, i dont think it does, but i heard here somewhere that even mic-OFF can:)
 
Oedipax said:
What does mic-OFF do? Allocate more bitrate to just the video?
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i dont think these things do much... (D-lighting isnt even supposed to have any effect on video, micrphone should make no difference either)

i dont think there's much logic behind these. its just some of the settings we try to manipulate with to get the d90 to play nice:) and find out the golden combination:)
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i shot some low light footage today with the described in this forum settings...
will post soon.
 
d-lighting does nothing for video. and mic off...well probably nothing either, but seeing how it doesn't have to make room for audio, i'd hope the bitrate would go up just a hair.
 
ok here's my 1st attempt at low light.

http://vimeo.com/2619170

this was my 1st time doing anything with the d90 video (1st time doing stair stepping, then realizing that Premiere CS4 doesnt see default d90 avi's properly, having to run it through another codec, etc. etc. i may have overdone a step or two or did a step wrong(on the codecs side - seems so 'jumpy' after the codecs))....

I slightly missed better focus, which emphasizes the need for a good HDMI field monitor....

this was done on a Miller DS10 tripod & head with D90 with Nikon 35mm f1.4 lens
 
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I'm thinking about getting nikon lenses for mine. I'm still not sure which kind at the pawn shop will be the ones that fit. Oh, lookin good alex. I'd like to have a 1.4.
 
I've tried a number of combinations of the settings mentioned earlier in this thread they all produce the same amount of noise as with not using the settings. If it works I must be doing something wrong. The only thing that works well for me is the "cell phone trick". I personally don't use a cell phone but I have a small light that I trick the exposure down, lock it, then open the aperture (manual lens).
 
i'm fairly sure it's "just" a matter of exposing correctly. the camera tends to overexpose video, probably to keep the live view as visible as possible, which means higher iso and lifted shadows. exposing down a bit by exposing for a bright area for example means lower iso and crushed blacks, thus less noise.

/matt
 
Car3o said:

Menu/ISO sensitivity/
Iso sensitivity/3200
Iso sensitivity auto control/ON
Maximum sesnitivity/400
Minimum shutter speed/ 1/30

Long sxp. NR/ ON
Set picture contorl/ Anything mine is STANDARD
b2 Easy exposure compoensation/OFF
High ISO NR/HIGH
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if i correctly understand the above settings:
- this sets the ISO top limit at 400
- minimum shutter at 1/30

.... aperture is already fully controlled on manual nikon lens.
doesnt this in a sense give one a great control over the camera except showing actual ISO/shutter numbers?

for example, with these settings, if one is to point the camera at darkness - the camera will crank ISO up to 400 (set in the settings limit... if one wants it higher/lower - just change the settings... i'm pretty sure this auto-ISO and ISO top limit thing legitimately works for video as in the examples accomplishing good low light results posted by people here) and slow down shutter to 1/30 (which is the min limit set in the settings... this one i'm not 100% sure of as this setting maybe just for the stills?)

then do an AE-L.
then point at the subject.
if overexposed, fix with ND filters.

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same way - point at a bright area to get low ISO (or just set iso limit setting at 100 or 200), the camera will give a faster shutter depending on the brightness
then do an AE-L.
then point at the subject.

am i missing something?
 
The camera ignores all of that for video, and the ISO does whatever it wants, however HIGH it wants to go, until you lock exposure. Setting all of those parameters doesn't do anything for video mode.

Can somebody please tell me beyond a doubt if it does work?
 
One thing I've found is that if I hold down the +/- button and turn the back wheel when in LV mode the LCD gets darker or lighter depending on which way the wheel is turned. Is this just changing the brightness of the LCD or actually changing the exposure?
 
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