Sony HDR-CX130E - camera test - low lux testing

Just a short video testing out a new camera. This is taken at night on a road with street-lighting (old-style orange Low-Pressure Sodium lighting) - and it just intended to see how it all comes out on YouTube. Further test videos will hopefully follow in the next couple of days.

For a comparison, the street light I zoom in on is about 70 metres (230ft) away from the camera.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• camcorder
• camera
• test
• Sony
• Handycam
• HDR
• CX130
• CX130E
• night
• low
• luminance
• dark
• low lux
• testing
• trial

[RockSmith92]

do you use premier pro at all? i was wondering what presetting you choose, to get the images crystal clear?

[RichardB1983]

@RockSmith92 No I don't use that. I usually use VideoPad Video Editor, but this particular video was actually uploaded to YouTube directly from the camera output.

[RockSmith92]

@RichardB1983 Ahh fair play, its just that sometimes when importing footage, quality can be lost and i was wondering how to prevent it.

[RichardB1983]

@RockSmith92 YouTube does do some resampling/processing of the videos we upload, but I think you can minimise losses by picking certain preferred file formats to save your videos in. When I'm editing together a video, I usually save it as an MP4 file. I tend to find that the quality of the video on my PC is not vastly different to what I get once I've uploaded. The file sizes aren't too bad as well, expecially compared to uncompressed AVI files for example.

[RobCharles1981]

Looks a nice Camera :-)

[RichardB1983]

@RobCharles1981 Cheers Rob. Arrived yesterday, but I've not had a chance to test it out in daylight yet! I'm hopefully going to do a daylight shot tomorrow morning. Seems pretty good so far, but I'm still trying to find out the best settings etc.

[mr90214]

I use premiere pro on a mac - and want to buy a camcorder that I know will import without losing quality. My last panasonic camcorder was only ok with PC. Any ideas?

[SebiStudios2]

They don't make cameras like they used to. They used to have real good low light sensitivity.

[RobCharles1981]

@RichardB1983 Cool look forward to that, I have two cameras Sony HDR SR10E and DCR SR55E with the latter I'm trying to find the best setting for night shot mode.