Nikon D90 movie vs Camcoder

Nightshot captured with Nikon D90(640x424 to match 720x576 of Sony's miniDV camcoder).I used Nikkor 50mm/1,8D.From D90 is of course the second footage and the advantage of bigger senzor and higher sensitivity is obvious.

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• D90
• Nikon
• movie
• camdoder
• Sony
• comparison
• nightshot

[MarcGerardPhoto]

here's a question:

i own a D90 and recently compared it with another D90 fo a friend. mine has a little lapse compared to his: depanding on the exposure it makes horizontal dark stripes moving down the screen. i have to move my camera to diffrent exposure settings until i find one thats not making stripes, and hope that it's an exposure according to my scene.

U C my problem? does anyone have the same problem? did anyone solve it? maybe with a frimware update ? (dindn't find any)

thx :)

[player1CR]

Sounds strange, I would ask servise center^_^

[BedShaker0909]

Thanks for posting this comparison.. Decision is made.. D90 it is..But wait, what about the Canon 50D??

[player1CR]

If you "need" movie mode, than 50D is out, it can't capture movies, only 5D Mark II can in 1080p but it records in stupid quicktime "mov" format.

50D has great body, but I prefer controls and features(auto ISO for exapmle) of Nikon's DSLR.

[nikhilbandale1234]

@MarcGerardPhoto that is due to the discontinuous light source in your scene. it's called banding or something, and it has something to do with the frequency of the a/c souce powering the light source and the way data is read off your dslr sensor. You can fix this by setting the frame rate in your camera to something that the a/c frequency in Hz is divisible by. Or by using incandescent lighting for your scene.

[nikhilbandale1234]

@MarcGerardPhoto that is due to the discontinuous light source in your scene. it's called banding or something, and it has something to do with the frequency of the a/c souce powering the light source and the way data is read off your dslr sensor. You can fix this by setting the frame rate in your camera to something that the a/c frequency in Hz is divisible by. Or by using incandescent lighting for your scene.

[MarcGerardPhoto]

@joecole05

i don't think you're right... not every camera does that in normal bulb-light :/ a common handheld camera can shoot indoors without doing those stripes. the D90 is the first filming DSLR and i didn't expect it to be groundbreaking. are new nikons and canon-dslr more advanced considering this problem? does anyone know?

[joecole05]

@MarcGerardPhoto actually, ur question is very simple ...i had mine with the same prob..but have u ever tried shooting under sunlight..n compare it to shoot it indoor.. actually, its because the sensor refresh rate could not catch up with the light refresh rate...u know, our light bulb, especially fluorescent type has its own wavelength and refresh rate...

so actually, every camera is like this..no worries

[Jamesyg0]

@MarcGerardPhoto the problem is the ambient lighting. Certain lighting causes most video cameras that record with low frames per second to 'strobe'

[kwahim360]

not enough exposure.

thats y it flicking.

[kaouthiavideo]

You didn't say which sony minidv camcorder. Something like a PD-170 has pretty damn good low light capabiltities. Standard consumer off-the shelf crap usually doesn't. :)

[spagget]

simple thought:

For Nikkon D90:

primary ; picture

secondary : video...

and the primary of camcorder is video not for pictures.

[Peace7Maker]

what with the funky music...

[MarcGerardPhoto]

i see ...

thx guys!

i'll try different settings and maybe also different shooting modes (i'm always shooting Manuel Mode ...) maybe my friend's got some different settings as i got ....

thx again!! ;)