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Originally Posted by
Tom Gull /forum/post/18214216
Amazing improvements in quality vs low-light from just a few years ago.
On the comparison clips, I see quite a bit of difference in how much of the equipment you see, not so much in noise levels. Look at the CX500V clip - you can easily see the box out to its left edge, and some detail to the left of the knob. In the other clip, things to the left of the knob are pretty much just dark. The TMC also seems to have a bluish cast which I suspect is from the cam as opposed to being the real color (but I'm not sure of that).
I don't think any of the Sony videos you posted use the Sony Low Lux mode itself. I can usually tell the difference pretty easily, and certainly side by side. The Low Lux mode is brighter, the colors and detail a little less clear, and noisier - not bad generally but noisy compared to the regular exposure.
I found quickly that on average I'll give up the Low Lux brightness to get low noise with regular exposure unless the light level is just too low to support the latter.
If you're still browsing, here are some clips I posted to give people a feel for the CX500V look in fairly average low light as opposed to very low light. I have other clips that are aimed at demonstrating stabilization as well. Technical note: only the second clip under "Regular indoors clips" was uploaded at 1080p to YouTube, and then YouTube rendered it at the lower levels. I just figured out how to do this last week. All the other clips are 720p uploads, and the process of rendering the 1080i cam video down to 720p introduced some visible "de-interlacing artifacts" into some clips. So only the 1080p clip represents a fairly true picture of the cam's actual video quality. The 720ps are still nice to watch, but if you see some tiny jagged lines left to right where you expect smooth vertical lines, that will be the de-interlacing artifacts. They're not there in the actual video.
Indoor show at Disney World (2 of 4 posted)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTu00XTV_3s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpowzshqgao
Night clips (fireworks) at Epcot; snow at night (the latter two contain regular and low lux segments for comparison)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIWGVbcqIAs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qDv20DUxnE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZPPhz7_Ync
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlUXrG21bME
Regular indoors clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf4SgMxjiVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ua-7GGzC8
Model railroad indoors - older HC7 clip, CX500V for comparison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je4sIHUvH4M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsf9Cuhr9g8
Sugar gliders playing in cage, same timeframe, one Low Lux, one not, plus a second regular exposure low light clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwxSmALogCM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNXgSGB8mVc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgSmtudrrSY
Harpers Ferry WV twilight into night examples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuJzXZTSkTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfDpICsPyy8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmK1q0vsLWg