Best Low Light Digital Camera
Jul 23, 2018 18:21:14 #
I have an Nikon D5300. It’s an excellent low light camera and very affordable also. Another great feature is the dx format this extends the range of your lens. Ex: an 200mm lens will give you the same range as 35mm film camera would at 300mm. This camera has many great features.
Jul 23, 2018 18:28:23 #
Rab-Eye wrote:
Fuji GFX 50S. I doubt any Nikon or Canon comes close, but I’ll never own one in this lifetime.
Probably not the camera one would choose for basketball action in a dark gym, as the OP wants to do.
(But i’d love to have one. Maybe we can get a group together and buy a kit to time share?)
Jul 23, 2018 18:46:09 #
Jul 23, 2018 18:53:17 #
Full frame camera, fast lens. IE: Canon 5d series. 50mm 1.2 "L" lens.
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Jul 23, 2018 19:06:42 #
I typically shoot in very low light. You have to compare apples to apples: two cameras with the same lens and ISO photographing the same scene. "Full frame" are typically better but it varies from model to model.
Jul 23, 2018 19:20:30 #
Rab-Eye wrote:
Fuji GFX 50S. I doubt any Nikon or Canon comes close, but I’ll never own one in this lifetime.
I wasn't familiar with this camera. A Google search brought me to B&H and a list of body and lens combos. About half way down the page was this.
Fujifilm Fujicolor PRO 400H Professional Color Negative Film (35mm Roll Film, 36 Exposures)
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Jul 23, 2018 19:58:24 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
The effect of noise on an image is certainly subje... (show quote)
That's the absolute truth. If you ever had to shoot a football game with 800-speed film, then you'll know what grain is!! But since the pictures were going into newspapers, anything fairly recognizable was acceptable.
Jul 23, 2018 23:06:54 #
Generally, a full-frame camera will be better in low light than APS or smaller. Since you are a Nikon guy, the D850 would be an excellent choice. The D750 has a full-frame sensor with fewer megapixels but is a better value. For what you are looking for, I think sensor size is more important than pixel count. So, considering price, the D750 may be the way to go. Medium format would be the best of all if you can afford it. Having said that, I use micro 4/3 (Olympus), one size smaller than APS or Nikon DX, and feel I get excellent results across the board. I do not especially need extremely high ISOs but I find that micro 4/3 results are great at least up to about ISO 6400 or so. There is also a huge savings in size and weight. You need to decide whether the advantage in low light is a good trade off for the increase in size and weight that a full-frame camera will inevitably bring. Even mirrorless full-frame cameras (e.g., Sony) can be fairly bulky because of the size and weight of the lenses.
Jul 24, 2018 11:48:28 #
GoofyNewfie wrote:
Probably not the camera one would choose for basketball action in a dark gym, as the OP wants to do.
(But i’d love to have one. Maybe we can get a group together and buy a kit to time share?)
(But i’d love to have one. Maybe we can get a group together and buy a kit to time share?)
Fair point, but I only saw his OP which did not mention basketball, only low light and lots of megapixels.
Jul 24, 2018 11:49:43 #
Bill_de wrote:
I wasn't familiar with this camera. A Google search brought me to B&H and a list of body and lens combos. About half way down the page was this.
Fujifilm Fujicolor PRO 400H Professional Color Negative Film (35mm Roll Film, 36 Exposures)
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Fujifilm Fujicolor PRO 400H Professional Color Negative Film (35mm Roll Film, 36 Exposures)
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A friend of mine has one and loves it.
Jul 24, 2018 11:55:03 #
Rab-Eye wrote:
Fair point, but I only saw his OP which did not mention basketball, only low light and lots of megapixels.
Yeah, the original OP did not mention basketball--that was me. I shoot BB in a high school gym that has a lighting level near that of a cave. By the way, do not get a D850 for low light. I had a D800 and it was horrible in low light because of the pixel density. All the sensor did was to draw heat and electron spillover from the densely packed pixels and it created a lot of noise at high ISO. High megapixel counts are not the answer to low light---but rather look for a FF camera with low megapixels, like the D4s
Jul 24, 2018 12:02:00 #
Rab-Eye wrote:
Fair point, but I only saw his OP which did not mention basketball, only low light and lots of megapixels.
Whoops! Got the OP confused with tomcat.
Jul 24, 2018 14:49:38 #
GoofyNewfie wrote:
Whoops! Got the OP confused with tomcat.
It's ok....people confuse me all the time...... :)
Jul 24, 2018 15:23:18 #
tomcat wrote:
It's ok....people confuse me all the time...... :)
Confusion is a constant state of mind for me.
Jul 29, 2018 09:23:26 #
Tomcat5133
Loc: Gladwyne PA
Add on the Sony a7s and a7s II are 12 mpx and are used for video filming often. I doubt the mentioned
camera's can be any better at this point.
camera's can be any better at this point.
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