LCD/Live view sluggish at low light conditions

slyn4ice

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Hey everyone,

Just got my GH1 with a 14-45mm lens. It's an amazing camera and i'm loving it so far. I have a problem however, and want to ask you guys for help.

I have noticed two things on my LCD. First i get horizontal lines on black or dark colors in low light conditions and some times at house lighting condition. It seems like the sensor is trying to compensate for those dark areas - they look as if they are noisy. I have taken both a photo and a video and I can hardly see any noise in those areas, but this seems somehow magnified on the LCD (the LCD auto brightness is turned off).

The other problem is that it looks like the LCD is not refreshing in those cases (like the internal processor is too busy and instead of 24 frames a second i get around 14-15 and what i see on the LCD is choppy). I can always reproduce the problem in the following scenario: sitting on the couch with dark blue sweat pants; there are a few house lights on; looking at anything around the house gives me no problem on the LCD; if I point the camera at my lap (and dark blue sweat pants) the picture gets choppy (and pants look as if ISO just shot up through the roof).

The camera is taking photos without any artifacts or problems... Maybe some setting I forgot to switch??

Would appreciate any help.
 
I just read in the manual that noise may appear in dark places on the LCD and that its normal and doesn't affect picture quality (like i have experienced). But it says nothing on the choppy LCD display in low light...
 
Was the choppy lcd kind of like a ghosting? And did it happen to be cold while you were shooting? Had that happen to me when shooting my short for BetrayalFest outside on a cold night, got me so worried but in the end it didn't show up in the footage, still kind of annoying though
 
I'm not sure - i don't think so. The best way to describe it is halved framerate - instead of a nice 24f/s live view, i get maybe 14-15f/s... weird.
 
This will happen if you have the camera set to auto because under low light conditions the shutter slows down considerably. Set it to full manual and enjoy.
 
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