Low Light Poor Quality: Does anyone else experience a significantly lower quality recording in low-light conditions?
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Hi Dennis, Low-light scenarios is a general issue with personal video cameras. Simply put, you can not expect the same video quality for low light conditions as for sunshine day recordings. I have Canons HF11 and am actually quite impressed how good the quality of the low light sensitivity became nowadays (I am recording fireworks). Under which conditions are you taking a video, whats the object ?
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Well so far, I have had terrible luck recording indoors. I have seen test on youtube and elsewhere, that display otherwise though. Many of the other reviewers seem to be getting better image quality than me.
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low light recording is good as long as you do not zoom. The bigger the aperture of the lens the better quality of the picture
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Results are somewhat dependent on your camera. However, I've not had good success in low light conditions especially at high zoom settings.
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Hi Alex, The camcorder doesn't have ISO settings. You may use NightShot feature for low light shooting. Vincent
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It has performed very well for me in low light situations. I have been startled a few times by the brightness of the recorded image. I usually use a Pentax 18-250mm lens.
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Have you tried changing the ISO (the equivalent of film speed)? Perhaps it's set too low. I'd try either 400 or 800 if you're shooting indoors. Also try either the sports mode or night (not night tripod) in the Scene Position. I've had no problems with shooting indoors without flash and I get pretty good pics. If the lighting is extremely low, I prop the camera on something. If the kids are moving fast, either use flash or the settings I mentioned above. I've not had any problems with the picture quality indoors with mine. Hope this helps.
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I'm having a similar problem. I've noticed it most in low light, when the subject moves. I don't think I've experienced it much outdoors in bright light. I've not taken the time to research it yet. I'd say I've been somewhat disappointed in the camera.
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It records until the battery runs down, the battery life is not very long. It does record in low light but image is poor quality at a 6 foot distance. I have never tried recording with no light.
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Yes - check out my review of the product on the Amazon site where I go through all the changes. I guess the higher resolution recording is the main feature they are touting, but there are few others as well, such as fixing the flimsy battery cover.
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I'm really surprised at how well the camera does at low lighted events. I usually take both flash pics and no flash pics but find many times the pics taken with available light are better than with the flash. Hope that helps.
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Unfortunately I never attempted to use the camera under low light conditions.
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I'm not certain, but we have taken pictures in dim light which have turned out really well. We have then turned on the flash mode for comparison and the picture is even brighter and crisper looking . This camera takes amazing pictures in most situations! Hope this helps.
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Did you end up buying this camera? My D7100 did horrible in low lighting. I got "Banding". My D7000 did much better.
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Hey Mark, Try setting the camera to the "P" on the dial (stands for Program AE). Once you do, click the Q. MENU button on the bottom right of camera. Select the ISO setting and change it to 200 or 400. I'm having the same issues as you with this camera and its poor low light performance. To get better shots indoors, it helps to crank up the ISO to a higher setting. The downside is that the picture may come in a bit grainy. The higher the ISO, the more grain, but at least you'll have a brighter and clearer picture. At ISO 200 and 400, you shouldn't have too much grain for it to ruin the picture. Let me know if it works!
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Did not try so much, recording videos at low light, but the ones I shot came out pretty good. Pictures in low light is great.
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I have been trying to do that same thing. Some scenes get messed up by the auto-exposure. A couple steps down in the settings you can change how bright or dark the picture is but that pesky auto-exposure is still active. Let's hope if they ever put up another firmware update that they include that functionality like when they added the timer function.