Best settings for indoor shooting: Any recommendations on manual settings to improve video quality in low light?
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Read Ray's review, AND his replies. One of the most helpful and acknowledged guys out there.... Well done Ray - you ARE the best !!
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Low light is terrible... Returning today. Sound capture is OK. I love Amazon
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Yes, I just got mine. Going to shoot some video tests this weekend with it. It has good low-light abilities.
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Sensor is bigger and low light is better. Shoot in 30P rather than 60i and you'll be quite happy in normal indoor room light. Go to shutter priority and you can go to 1/15 second if the light is lower. With the optical stabilization you're good at the lower shutter speed.
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I have the same camcorder and haven't gotten any grain in a well lit room. There are a few options you can try to reduce the graininess, especially in low-light conditions. Depending on how well a room is lit, it may well still be considered low light. I don't know if you've tried any of these yet, but here it goes: Try setting the camcorder 'cine mode' at 24p. Another setting which works for me is to set your camcorder to aperture priority (Tv) at 1/30, and your frame rate at 30 fps. Hopefully, one of these settings will work for you.
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Seems to handle low light shooting (Especially with high ISO) very well: http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2012/10/09/night-time-street-shooting-with-the-sony-rx1-amazing-high-iso-samples/
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Travis, Set the ISO manually to ISO 400. The 800 or 1600 settings will be grainy. Use shutter priority and play with the white balance. I believe 1/80 second should be good for most shots. Use a tripod, monopod or the" EVF plus elbows against chest and hold your breath technique". Exposure correction in a Photo Editor can also extend your low light level limit.
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http://dmc.wisc.edu/media/manuals/efl/canon_hg10.pdfThere are also a few tweaks you need to do to get decent video...someone wrote an article about it...google is your friend. The main thing is turning off the A.SL Shutter (Automatic Slow Shutter) feature in the menu.
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I would personally want a lot more light for video. I think this is better for still shots with a camera on a tripod and a slow shutter speed.
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It is excellent with standard lighting inside a home. Use the Scene Mode selection to adjust for low lighting. If you really need a light, purchase a camcorder battery powered light, attach it to the bottom of the camera.
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Very good in low light situations - rarely have to use the flash indoors-eh!!
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You can set ISO in Automatic and the camera will choose the better ISO in a range between 160 and 3600. Or just choose the Range option in which the camera moves in the range 160-400 ISO which is enough for most daylight and flash shots. You can use the Scene selector and let the camera decide to control settings depending o the type of scene you're taking (landscape,portrait,sport,pets, etc.). If I'm not wrong there is a big table in the last part of the pdf manual (in the CD) that tells all the factory preset controls, most are the automatic ones. You can have a look onit but set some controls according your own preferences (for example AF simple or permanent).
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Go to the DRO settings (Dynamic Range Optimizer) and turn it off completely. Make sure it's not in "Auto". The DRO is very useful in extreme lighting situations and to lift exposure in the dark areas of a photo. It's almost like the HDR mode but only with one shot.
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I have taken at least 100 photos withe Sony CX260V. Daylight photos are acceptable but not the quality I would want if I was using a 8-9 meg pixal camera. Low Light shots are worse than expected. I am working with the camera now to learn how to use the manual features instead of auto features and have been able to make some improvements in picture quality. Even better on the video recording side using the manual feature settings versus auto. Basically - it is a decent HD video camcorder with a camera feature that is nice to have when you do not want to carry two cameras.
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Auto mode picks the best possible settings from a huge internal library. Auto ISO enables low light pics without flash. The only issue is in bright light(in all Modes) Frank Wilson mentioned in a previous post the quick set dial for adjusting exposure. I find Setting it to -.3 gives good results. You can always brighten picture but can't darken washed out ones. Picture quality is impressive.
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Use the aperture priority mode and set +/- exp. to +2. Depending on the light level, try to use the lowest ISO possible. 400+ is likely to be grainy. If you can get away with it, 80-200 looks great in most situations. In a restaraunt, you may be better off using the flash -- perhaps on a lower setting.
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In that kind of environment, where you're standing in the dark but the kids on stage are lit, it performs very well. In fact, we had a concert at my church a couple weeks ago and I shot in those precise conditions... and the pictures turned out great! Oh... don't be afraid to bump your ISO, even up to 3200, and you should be fine. ヅ