Hot! If I looked half that graceful doing anything, then… well, I don’t know, I’d look pretty graceful.
This video was taken with her (ostensibly) still camera on auto focus, and the low light performance is pretty damn impressive if you ask me. Much better than my first go-round with the camcorder. This has inspired us to try some videos at home so I can work on figuring the damn thing out, and (obviously) so she can post more videos.
The most obvious place to look is shutter speed, something I wasn’t aware I could change when I made the Podcamp Nashville video. I read in the friendly manual that there’s an “auto slow” shutter speed I should try in dark conditions.
I haven’t tried such a function on my new Panasonic, but if your cam is anything like my Canon ZR500, the slow shutter setting does give you more light, but is also pretty bad for fast-moving subjects like pole dancers. I’m making up numbers now, but basically it looks like instead of getting 30fps at a shutter speed of 1/60s, you get 10fps at 1/20s — so not only are your moving subjects blurry b/c of the longer shutter, but your video framerate slows down and looks like a convenience store security camera.
But that’s just the Canon, so worth a shot with what you’ve got.
Actually, I have the same ZR500. Was pretty good in daylight or close-to-daylight conditions, but was pretty miserable in low light. It’s possible I was doing something wrong, so if you have any advice on getting passable low light performance from it, it’d be much appreciated.