01-17-2005, 10:13 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 27
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Originally Posted by don
Very few, if any, camcorders do well in low light. Even expensive professional machines use extra lights to get good results.
Look at the lens on the front of the gs14; it's pretty small and at f3.4 on maximum zoom you aren't getting very much light in. It also has a 1/6" CCD considerably smaller than older generation chips. So it's very possible for your old camcorder to preform better in low light.
The review here says it doesn't perform well in low light and that most camcorders in the gs14 category don't either.
Proving once again, newer isn't always better.
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Don,
I recently read a thread where you and someone else kept going back and forth on the GS120 and HC85 cams, mainly regarding low light and video quality. This hit home when I read this as you had noted the larger the CCD the more light that is allowed to come in. The more CCD's the better the color. Somehow the GS120 does a fairly good job at both even with smaller CCD's. How is it that a camera such as the GS120 with 3 CCDS at 1/6 can perform that well in low light whereas another brand with 1/6 CCD's cannot? Just lens quality?
Also from reading that thread, it sounded like you had not yet decided on a DV cam to buy. Have you decided yet, or are you waiting until after the 05 models are released to the public? Please share your thoughts.
Thanks.
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