Night Vision?

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Bodean

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I may be starting work on a wildlife documentary that will require extensive night shooting. Lights aren't an option because they will disturb the banding process (birds). Therefore I've been looking into systems for camcorders. I've seen systems for the XL1-2 but nothing for the DVX.

Does anyone have any experience with this type of thing? Also, I have an old Sony with the "nightshot" feature but I don't think it will perform well enough for my needs. It looks like the high end nightvision equipment is quite expensive so I was hoping to find a system I could rent either for my DVX or for a low end handycam.

Any input will be appreciated.

Thanks
 
Re: Night Vision?

you could probably get a cheap nightvision scope and adapt it to your camera. It wouldn't be too hard. The footage wouldn't be spectacular but it would probably be just fine.

How much natural light will you have to work with? I assume this will be outside under the moon? If you need to shoot in 100% darkness you will need a thermal camera and that won't come cheap.
 
Re: Night Vision?

Thanks for the response. I'm not to worried about the footage being fantastic just good enough to tell what's going on.

This will basically be in the middle of nowhere so I'll be working with moonlight and/or starlight. I think I need to avoid systems using infrared light because I believe the birds in question (loons) are sensitive to it. So I think I'll need to use a high end image intensifier.
 
Re: Night Vision?

The Panasonic DVC-30 is the Camorder for you. It does a great job of seeing in the dark, via infared light. I have personally checked this camcorder out in the dark, it is incredible, even with gain up to +18db. You can purchase an optional IR light that will let you see 100 yards away in pure darkness. It works like a charm.
 
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yea that PANY camera is probably the best option. I do know that SONY makes a infrared light that you can use on your camera that is equipped with nightshot. It it supposed to shine the infrared beam of light a futher distance allowing you to see more than what you would see straight from the camera.
 
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i was wondering about this just for curiosity sake, for infrared viewing, is it just a matter of having an infrared light to throw the light and a filter on the camera to pick it up?

i doubt its that simple, but if it were, you could just add those two things to your dvx.

matthew
 
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