noise with lolight

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roxynik

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i am a new member in this fantastic forum, and i have a question for hvx users:
maybe i will buy the hvx200 but i want to know if its true that the cam produces noise with lolights? is it acceptable? if i make a confront with sony fx1 does the pana200 produces more noise? less noise? your opinion is it better pana200 or sony fx1 both cam has declared minum 3lux with lolights. your opinions?
thanks for any respose and scuse me for my bad english.:embarasse
 
Any camera is noisier the lower the light level is.

I think people get far too hung up on "low light performance." There are few situations in which you can't simply add more light.
 
I shot some fireworks on the Fourth of July with B Press gamma and 6dB of Gain, and was very pleased how clean the footage is.

The HVX is not as light sensitive as cameras with larger sensors or lower pixel counts (SD cameras), but that is different from noise.
 
B Press is widely acknowledged as being the gamma curve with the least noise, which makes it a logical choice for low-light situations, especially if you have to use gain.
 
the hvx will actually perform very well in low light as long as it can get a definitive exposure on at least 1 object in the frame. It's all about contrast at that point. You will start to see alot of noise if the image is just dark overall. It has a foggy undefined and noisy texture to it at that point - but with the right settings and lighting lowlight footage can be quite impressive.
 
In my experience, the HVX200 has less noise at 9dB gain than a DVX100 at 0dB gain...

I recently shot with the HVX at 18dB gain, F5 scene file with detail set to -2 and I must say I've never seen any 18dB gain footage which was so clean (relatively).

In my opinion the fact that the HVX200 doesn't show a lot of grain even with higher gain settings really makes up for its' poor low-light capabilities.
 
David,

About 80% of what I use my HVX for is filming skateboarding, a lot of which is at night. And as we are often being chased by police, or angry property owners, we do not have the luxury of carrying lights around with us. To people like me, low light performance is VERY important.

Take this, for example...

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This trick was shot simultaneously with my HVX-200 (left), a VX-2100 (middle), and a VX-1000 (right). I'd say the actual amount of light was about what the HVX shot shows, maybe a little brighter. By the way, I had full 12 db gain on my HVX. This comparison shows that the VX2100 OWNS in low light situations, but the HVX-200 doesn't perform too poorly either.
 
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