Camcorder Test – Riopelle Sculpture – Canon HF200 – Nighttime Tests
by Digital Camera Reviews on Friday, December 11th, 2009 | 25 Comments
Nighttime tests. This isn’t a torture test! This is a Guantanamo Waterboarding test! Source format: 1920 x 1080 60i, 30p and 24p (no 3:2 reverse pull-down applied) Project deinterlacing setting: Interpolated Fields Rendering format: 1920 x 1080 29.97 Hz Progressive Video codec: XviD Quantizer 4.00 HDTV profile The Canon received a lot of complaints about its low light deficiencies in “P” mode. Not only is there a lot of noise in the image, the shutter speed drops below 1/30, causing the …
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@deeson1212 I get the same thing, I think its normal
What’s the absolute best setting for the highest quality when recording in general? So far I have mine set up to MXP. Which is the highest quality framerate? 60i, PF30 or PF24?
in a way, it is because if the frame rate is 60 and you put auto exposure, it will look shittier then a frame rate at 24 put on auto exposure, assuming the shutter and darkness are the same in both
No, it’s closer to the shutter speed. In fact, it’s measured exactly the same way.
Changing the ISO on a digital camera (which the Canon HF200 can’t do) is akin to using Kodak T-Max P3200 B&W film at different ISO settings. The higher the setting, the grainier the image.
With film, a grainy image can become very artistic. With digital images however, what you have is a mess.
so the frame rate sorta is like the ISO on a camera?
lower iso, darker image
higher frame rate, darker image
Video looks amazing, Love the shot at 4:00
hell yes! you could hear that thing purr as it accelerated too. Nice :]
You noticed that too?
It has both an external mic jack and a standard 37 mm filter thread. You can get an adapter for the boot at DM Accessories if you plan to use a microphone equipped with a standard camera shoe mount.
Does this have an external mic slot? I know it has the boot on top.
Also, is the lense area threaded so that you can play with different lense types? In theory you could probably rig some kind of adaptor, but that would probably kill your warranty.
Great video!
Yep. It’s just the camcorder closing all open files before powering off. Perfectly normal.
TASK IN PROGRESS DO NOT DISCONNECT THE POWER SOURCE
I am getting this above message with my HF200. Do you get the same message? How to fix it?
Check the show notes. They list the settings I’ve used to render the video under Sony Vegas.
The settings aren’t perfect though. YouTube still gets the occasional “hiccups” with my videos.
I just got an HF200, but when I upload my videos they dont look nearly as good on YouTube as the real video. How did you upload your videos? They look very clean. Did you resize, edit, convert to a different file type, etc? Thanks for your help.
At night, definitely not the “P” mode! Try 1/30 shutter at 30p, and 1/24 shutter at 24p.
Cine mode will darken everything, but you never know. It just might work for you.
An hour and a half with the standard battery.
so wut would be the best settings for this camera??
How’s the battery on this baby?
Theoretically yes. But the files are already so big that you would be limited to only a couple of minutes of footage unless you used one of the low bitrate/high compression settings. And that would produce worse results than simply re-encoding the raw footage on a computer.
Can you upload the raw MTS file of the Canon HF200 (with HD Quality) to youtube without conversion on a PC?
In MXP mode (24 Mbps), about 45 minutes. In FXP mode (17 Mbps), about an hour.
The lower settings will start to introduce a few too many compression artifacts. Also, the horizontal resolution will drop from 1920 to 1440 pixels.
How much time you can shot with a 8 gb memory?
dont put it on night mode u will get noises, canon hf100 on night is the best HD camera at night
And no, you can’t choose 1/24 at 30p. It’s not a matching multiplier.
First, yes the film icon means Cinema Mode. Or Cine Mode. Or whatever.
Second, the choice of shutter speeds adjust themselves automatically based on the chosen FPS. That means you’ll get 1/24 for 24p, 1/30 for 30p, 1/25 for 25p, 1/50 for 50p, and 1/60 for 60i along with the corresponding adjoining multiples.
Yes, it can be a bit confusing.